Word: upness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rocky even managed to offend the television crews at a Los Angeles press conference by insisting on dividing it into two parts-one for the general press, one for TV. The technique had worked well enough back East, but the Angelenos would have none of it. As the TV crews...
Needled Suggestion. At a San Francisco reception for Republican leaders, ardent Nixon supporters all, Rocky finally permitted himself to lose some of his smiling composure and got in some telling licks. Margaret Leete, president of the Republican Women's Federation, needled him with a suggestion: "You've always...
Bookish Football. Robert Anderson had an old-fashioned upbringing in a close-knit, pious, hard-working family in Johnson County. Texas, just south of Fort Worth. His father (who died fortnight ago at 81) was a storekeeper in the little town of Burleson, later took up farming on a 120...
By attending courses at the University of Texas law school right through the summers, he plowed through the three-year law curriculum in two years, graduated with the highest average in his class. Toward the end of his second year, mindful that jobs were scarce for young lawyers in 1932...
Anderson's public services during his Waggoner years extended far beyond Vernon. He served as deputy chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas, as chairman of the statewide board of education. In 1951 he sat on a commission set up by the president of Columbia University, Dwight David...