Word: walkerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Representative Prentiss L. Walker, 47, the first Republican elected to Congress from Mississippi since Reconstruction, declared that he would oppose Democratic Senator James Eastland, 61, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Walker will have the back ing of Mississippi's small, well-financed, tightly organized Republican organization, is given an outside chance of beating Eastland by giving Mississippians a choice between a "conservative Republican and a double-standard Democrat...
...born restless," writes Parks, and he tried everything. In 1937, after seeing a collection of dust-bowl pictures by Carl Mydans, Walker Evans and Ben Shahn (who in those days was a photographer as well as a painter), Parks decided to try photography. He hustled to a downtown Seattle hock shop, bought a $12.50 Voigtlander camera, spent half an hour learning how to use the thing, then began shooting everything that crossed his path. So intent was he that he fell into Puget Sound while trying to photograph sea gulls...
Died. June Walker, 65, who flapped her way to fame in 1926 as the first Lorelei Lee of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, demonstrated her versatility by playing everything from a brassy prostitute in Waterloo Bridge to a doting mother in Blue Denim; of emphysema; in Sherman Oaks, Calif...
Willene A. Jones '68 of Wolbach Hall and New York, and C. Bruce Tutton '67 of Leverett House and Seattle, Wash., will join the University of Illinois field team in Ecuador. Paul H. Reiss '68 of Winthrop House and Attleboro, and Polly M. Quick of 103 Walker and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will go to Brazil as part of the Columbia field team...
...Coach Vince Lombardi thought so little of Taylor and Hornung that he had already hired their replacements-signing Illinois Fullback Jim Grabowski for $250,000, shelling out $600,000 for Texas Tech's Donny Anderson, who just might run, catch and kick better than any halfback since Doak Walker. Finally, after ascertaining that the stock market at least was holding its own, the Packers put away their papers, put on their pads, and went out and clobbered the fresh, eager, healthy Browns...