Word: windbag
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cupid's Darts. "Was it really genius?" asked the wonderful old windbag of his own remote and astounding youth. A prodigy, certainly. The son of a boozy soft-goods drummer who was pathetically proud of his descent from a long line of Southern naval officers, Upton was a boy wonder. He was still in short pants and scarcely through his freshman year at New York's City College (he entered at 13) before he had written his first novel. At his peak, his output of hack work and potboiling romances reached a sizzling 8,000 words...
...Wisconsin, with the crucial state primary just seven weeks away, the Humphreyites and Kennedymen were after each other tooth, nail and quill. Cries of "windbag" and "vote stealer" were hurled at Humphrey; Kennedy was labeled "soft on McCarthyism" and "tough and amoral." Brother Robert Kennedy, campaigning hard for Jack in Wisconsin, dropped some unsubtle hints that his (and Jack's) archenemy, tough Teamster Jimmy Hoffa, was backing Humphrey. Angrily, Humphrey retorted that "I have not sought Hoffa's support, and he has not offered it. The only time he came into my state recently was to say some...