Word: jim
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Next only to soon-to-retire Theodore Francis Green, 92, in point of age among U.S. Senators, Montana Democrat James Edward Murray, 84, announced that he will not run for a sixth term. A millionaire lawyer with mining and other business interests, New-Dealing, Fair-Dealing Jim Murray achieved political success in mineral-rich, purse-poor Montana by championing the "common man," was among organized labor's most devoted Senate rooters. As late as last January, he was feeling perky about his chance for reelection, but a bitter primary battle began shaping up, and Murray faced a real chance...
...last week, reported United Press International in a dispatch datelined Seoul. But to one American newsman, Scripps-Howard Correspondent Jim G. Lucas, 45, the words must have had an odd ring. For the same demonstrators who were so kind to other foreign reporters had chased Lucas clean out of Korea...
...popularity since his death, Mark Twain is now on the crest of a revival that is spreading fast through show business and publishing. M-G-M is about to release a wide-screen version of Huckleberry Finn (with Eddie Hodges as Huck and Pugilist Archie Moore as Jim). Before season's end a total of four major TV shows will have documented or dramatized various parts of the writer's life. From Cambridge, Mass, to Berkeley, Calif., presses have been rolling out books on Twain. Actor Hal Holbrook has already given more than 1,200 performances...
Cheaper by the Dozen. Unlike such other famed trainers as Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons (Wheatley Stable, Ogden Phipps) and Jimmy Jones (Calumet Farm), canny Hirsch Jacobs works for himself: he breeds and trains his own horses. While rival trainers tend to concentrate on a few promising horses, developing and saving them for a handful of high-prize stakes races, Jacobs sends his to the gate in wholesale lots. With his horse-factory methods, Jacobs seldom gets a truly famous horse. He has never, for example, won the Kentucky Derby; nor does he have a candidate for 1960's triple crown...
...cameras, and-a millionaire himself-he also has the money to wage an all-out campaign. His family can match the Kennedys in looks if not in numbers, and probably surpass them as entertainers (Wife Eve was once a $1,000-a-week cafe-society chanteuse. Son Jim is a semiprofessional guitarist and folk singer, and Daughter-in-Law Sylvia an accomplished pianist...