Word: workingman
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...spiritual songs. He has a tremendous appeal to little youngsters because of the name Tennessee Ernie. He is handsome enough and his low, masculine bass voice gives him sex appeal to women, but he is not good-looking enough for men to resent. Ernie himself is right from the workingman. They love and understand him. Let's face it, he's got mass appeal." Ford works an eleven-hour work day on his five daytime shows (soon to be dropped by him) and single night entry without getting ruffled. "The only one around here who has an ulcer...
...Guard brand of conservatism. "I'm convinced that the American mind is a conservative mind," says Arizona's Goldwater, who has suddenly arrived (after his major Senate speech denouncing Eisenhower Republicanism-TIME, April 22) as the Old Guard's most articulate spokesman. "The workingman is the new capitalist. Conservatives are going to win the next election, and the group which wins the 1958 elections will control the 1960 elections...
...million, largely wiping out the extra-heavy January decline. Unemployment also took a better turn, dropped by 123,000 to a total of 3,121,000 jobless. U.S. factory hands earned an average $82.41 a week, a new record for the month. And with hourly earnings of $2.05, the workingman had the highest wage level of all time...
...Prudential was not seriously involved in the great scandals. Founded a quarter of a century earlier by a sober, bookish young man named John Fairfield Dryden, it did its first business in "industrial insurance" for the workingman, policies that cost only pennies a week for up to $500 worth of life insurance. By 1911, when Founder Dryden died, it had 10 million policyholders on its rolls, soon afterward started shifting over from a stock company to a mutual operation owned by its policyholders...
...tourist trade. (Said one opera stage director: "Tourists come to Italy to see the Pope, the Colosseum and opera. Next they'll tear down the Colosseum to make a parking lot.") The Communist paper L'Unitaá meanwhile played the story as the tragedy of the poor workingman forced to foot the bills for "the luxuries and extravagances" of opera stars paid $1,500 a performance (actually a lot less than was paid 30 years ago). Tenor Mario Del Monaco volunteered to accept a pay cut "if other singers will do likewise." There were no takers...