Word: mccracken
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University of Virginia law school, home reading, and a term of clerking in the office of Paducah's famous old Judge William Bishop (fictionalized as Judge Priest by Paducah's other famous citizen, Irvin S. Cobb). Law led to politics, and in 1905 Barkley rambled through McCracken County on a one-eyed horse, stopping at every farmhouse to swap stories and get himself elected county prosecuting attorney. The next jump (in 1909) was to county judge, and the next (in 1912) was a stump campaign for good roads. It landed him in Congress...
...Sunday the Eisenhowers slipped off to the ii a.m. service at the interdenominational Riverside Church, stopped after the sermon to chat with the minister, Dr. Robert J. McCracken. Ten minutes after they got back home, Pennsylvania's Governor John Fine arrived for lunch and a political conference (see below) which lasted nearly four hours. After that the delegate parade was on: by the end of the week, when he makes his Detroit speech, Ike will have shaken the hands of some 500 delegates from 18 states...
...Robert J. McCracken, pastor of Manhattan's Riverside Church (see below), in The Churchman...
...Hugh Herbert's The Moon is Blue graces the Henry Miller on 43rd with the presence of Barbara Bel Goddes, Barry Nelson, and Donald Cook, while Welcott Gibbs' Fire Island comedy, Season in the Sun, continues at the Cort on 48th. Eddie Dowling and Joan McCracken close after the weekend at the Booth in Angel in the Pawnshop...
What poetry and picturesqueness Angel possesses stem from John E. Blankenchip's set and lighting, and Will Irwin's incidental music. The play itself is as devoid of charm as it is of sense, and the players do not help much. Joan McCracken is almost overbearingly girlish. Eddie Dowling - dying at the end with a bright smile and a brighter spotlight on his face - displays his habitual unconquerable benevolence, his seeming desire to bring to humanity all the year round what A Christmas Carol brings it at Christmas...