Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Among the precarious, prosperous Florida is still Republican; West Virginia is still Democratic. On the heels of his first campaign trip across Texas, Vice President Richard Nixon fired back another surprise for G.O.P. headquarters: do not write off Texas' 24 electoral votes in 1956. Nixon's prediction: even Texas, which went for Ike in 1952 but looked unshakably Democratic this time, might tip to Ike if the President would campaign in the state...
...this week provoked his erstwhile admirer, Columnist Stewart Alsop, to write: "Failure to communicate is Stevenson's great weakness, which he must somehow overcome in the few campaign weeks that remain if he is to have, a ghost of a chance of winning." -It is the 22nd Amendment (1951), not Ike's age, that limits him to two terms, will likewise limit all subsequent Presidents...
...broiling that tough old rooster, Governor J. Bracken Lee. in Utah's Republican gubernatorial primary, G.O.P. Nominee George Clyde seemed to have a tender pigeon in Democratic Candidate Lorenzo Clark Romney. But last week Bracken Lee, who still has a dedicated personal following, announced his candidacy as a write-in independent, a move sure to cut into Clyde's Republican vote next month. Result of the Republican split: Democrat Romney was transformed from dead pigeon into an ominous Utah sea gull...
...York Herald Tribune, retired to his native Texas ten years ago, he had a place as Manhattan's most celebrated city editor since the New York Evening World's hard-boiled Charles E. Chapin* and one of the few city editors in newspaper history who could write a decent paragraph. Last week, a successful rancher and freelancer at 57, Walker turned up in Dallas, 140 miles from his ranch, at the Southwest Journalism Forum. In a rattle of pronouncements on the state of U.S. journalism, he proved as tart as ever. ¶On "objectivity" in newswriting: "It produces...
There was no comment on the rumors that Aldous Huxley had been hired to write them and that they were played over and over again all through the day and night in such strategic places as the Varsity Club and Mory...