Word: bubblegum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BubbleGum Candidate."Once the decision was made, the old warrior's battle gorge began to rise. "I'm getting," he says of Opponent Joe Clark, "so I hate that guy's guts." Chugging around in his Ford station wagon, Duff has covered some 6,000 miles in his campaign, plans another 10,000 before Nov. 6. ("Damn, I've never done anything like this before.") To Jim Duff, the biggest issue in the 1956 elections is peace. "For anyone to think that Stevenson could replace Eisenhower as the keeper of the peace," he tells his audiences...
...savagely attacks Joe Clark, describing him as a "bubblegum candidate" whose membership in Americans for Democratic Action means involvement "in a powerful leftwing and underground activity." When he is accused of unfair tactics, Big Red merely snorts: "You can't hit Joe Clark below the belt because he is all belly and no head." Midnightly, Jim Duff can still be found shaking hands in hotel lobbies or sweating away on the next day's speeches, which he insists on writing himself...
...Williamsport, Pa., the Little League world series went to a band of bubblegum blowers from Schenectady, N.Y., who outlasted Colton, Calif, in the finals 7-5. Star of the game: Billy Masucci, twelve-year-old Schenectady pitcher, who smashed a two-run homer in the first inning, maintained his poise on the mound after beaning Colton's Harley Chapman (whose hand he shook in apology-see cut), struck out nine and allowed only four hits...
...three blistering fast balls. Though Yankee hitters are less fearsome than the Dodgers, four regulars are over .300. Catcher Yogi Berra, Outfielders Hank Bauer and Gene Woodling, Pinchhitter Johnny Mize can all deliver the big hit with men on bases. And in Mickey Mantle (.297) the Yankees have a bubblegum-popping youngster who runs like a scared whippet and can slam a ball out of any ball park in the country...