Word: woos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carmine De Sapio, 47, boss of Tammany Hall, New York's secretary of state, the mastermind behind Averell Harriman. De Sapio controls almost all of New York State's massive 98 votes, is combing the hinterlands for more. He makes frequent trips to Washington to woo Southern legislators, leaves courtship in other areas to Harriman lieutenants who do not suffer the Tammany stigma...
Tito (who is making a triumphal return call to Moscow this week) has recently been acting as self-appointed broker for Russia's Nikita Khrushchev in the Communist campaign to woo Western socialists. The campaign has not been going at all well, particularly since B. & K.'s disastrous' dinner with British Laborites (TIME, May 7). Last week Tito's patience broke down when he received a letter from Phillips bringing up the subject of the shabby treatment given to Djilas...
Daniel hopes to woo the same conservative voters who sent Allan Shivers to Austin for three terms. Five men, so far, are opposing him; the stiffest competition will come from Ralph Yarborough, choice of the liberal Democrats. Yarborough, an Austin attorney, has lost twice to Shivers (in 1954 by only 92,000 votes), but is still a potent campaigner...
...Molnar-Hammerstein plot, in particular, shows its greasepaint complexion on the screen. Billy Bigelow (Gordon MacRae) is a carnival pitchman, and what he pitches best of all is woo. Underneath his brattitude, of course, Billy is a real home-cookin' kid-just the sort of wild bull that really wants a wedding ring in his nose. And, of course, he gets one. He chases a fresh-faced little New England factory girl (Shirley Jones) so hard that she catches him. Billy has lost his carnival job, but he is too big a man to take work on a filthy...
Progress Report. In Taegu, South Korea, two weeks after he escaped from jail, Murder Suspect Kank Woo Won sent a polite note to the prosecutor: "I wasn't feeling too well because I feared I would be executed, but I am very well now, thank...