Word: keep
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Protestant campaign against Smith showed a ferocity that would be impossible in the more homogenized U.S. of 1960. He was referred to as "Alcohol) Smith." Widely circulated stories reported him so drunk at public functions that cronies had to support him to keep him from falling down. The Ku Klux Klan issued a "Klarion Kail for a Krusade" against him, attacked him repeatedly in the Klan publication, Fellowship Forum. A typical Forum cartoon showed what a Cabinet meeting would be like if Smith got elected: the Pope and a dozen fat priests sitting happily around the table, with Smith...
LAST THE BUYER IS UNMASKED! The buyer: wealthy ("I have a bit of property") Major A. E. Allnat, who headed up a patriotic syndicate to keep the Rubens in England and turn it over to the National Gallery. "Frankly," said the major when tracked down, "I do not like the picture. I wouldn't have it in my house...
Says the Post's Nixon-baiting Editor James Wechsler: "You can imagine our surprise when we saw that column." Now and then, to keep sports fans from starving, Robinson throws them a bare bone: "The National League picture this year again shows a race between Los Angeles, San Francisco and Milwaukee." The Post seems satisfied enough with its bargain. Says Editor Wechsler: "There's a lot of reaction to the column pro and con, but the main thing is that there is reaction. The writing style may not be the greatest in history...
...Mingling. Beamed strictly at Baltimore, the morning Sun (circ. 198,204) and the evening Sun (circ. 216,261) nonetheless orbit the world: the Szwpapers have one of the largest newspaper bureaus in Washington (ten men), keep staffers in London, Moscow, Rome and Bonn, and often, rather than rely on wire-service copy, send their own men after the big national news, wherever it breaks. The only time the morning Sun ever bought a syndicated political columnist, it killed his copy and thereby kept it out of town for years; the columnist was Drew Pearson, whom the Sun had fired...
...nature of his ailments. A sitz, or semicuphim, bath was recommended for congestion of the brain, and a "dipping sitz," did wonders for "nervous debility and a relaxed condition of the generative parts." An overheated brain could be cooled by a foot bath, but bathers were warned to keep their toes in motion...