Word: pat
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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When he first went to California, Day declared that he was through with politics, but soon changed his mind. He became a backer of Governor-to-be Edmund ("Pat") Brown, earned an appointment to the finance committee of the Democratic State Central Committee, helped form Democratic Associates, a committee of conservative Democrats who sponsor business-minded candidates for office. Day is articulate and abrupt, an effortlessly efficient manager. No mossback, Day manages to preserve the respect (if not the adoration) of both right and left in California's mixed-up politics...
Nixon's most perplexing political problem in California is whether or not to run for Governor in 1962 against Democratic Incumbent Pat Brown. Brown at the moment appears vulnerable, and if Nixon were to contest and beat him, it would certainly increase Nixon's 1964 presidential chances. But a loss to Brown would surely be the end of the Nixon road: Is the gain worth the big risk? Some Nixon advisers work on another thesis: come 1964, Kennedy may be riding a high crest of popularity. Nixon is still young. If 1964 looks unpromising for a Republican candidate...
...Lloyd Nolan and Robert Young. On the Democratic side, Sinatra's Clan (mercifully kept out of public sight most of the time) had a brocade-vested interest in the election because of Actor Peter Lawford's marriage to John Kennedy's sister, Pat. The Clan is now buffing its cuff links and ordering gowns for the inaugural ball...
...Chronicle. By the time he quit to go to Collier's in 1955, he had made a name for himself by stories exposing prison conditions and breaking up a municipal bond racket, and by helping to solve a murder. On the side, he worked for California Democratic Politicians Pat Brown and Richard P. Graves, served as Adlai Stevenson's California press-relations chief during the 1952 campaign...
...Born. To Pat Suzuki, 29, tiny (4 ft. 11 in.), brassy-voiced singer who made it big in Broadway's Flower Drum Song, and Mark Shaw, 38, fashion photographer: their first child, a son; in New York. Name: Joseph. Weight...