Word: stevensonism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though he thus replaced nearly all of Adlai's aides, the President offered neither explanation for the change nor praise for their past performance. That task fell to Goldberg, who paid graceful tribute to Stevenson's "old guard," adding: "We did not feel we had the right to exact further arduous service from people who had done so much...
Sobel taught Ed ("Porky") Oliver, who won nine pro tournaments between 1940 and 1959, was runner-up in the U.S. Open, the P.G.A. and the Masters. He put the first golf club in Frank Sinatra's hands, tutored Joe Louis, Adlai Stevenson ("Short but straight as a string"), Rocky Marciano, Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson, Eddie Arcaro, and Sophie Tucker ("Anybody with a pair of hands like that...
...Does Artist Boris Chaliapin find it as amazing as I do that his 13-year-old painting of the then Governor should parallel so exactly the photograph taken just seconds before Stevenson's death...
...offer condolences? To millions the world over, Stevenson represented the finer breed of American and proved that the best man need not always win at politics...
...work for the Chicago Sun-Times, later covered robberies, fires, riots for NBC news in Chicago. On one occasion, he reported a cops-and-robbers gunfight while sprawled on his stomach with bullets whizzing over his head. His coverage of the 1956 presidential campaign impressed Adlai Stevenson enough to offer him a job on a projected White House staff. While reporting the last Republican convention, Chancellor suffered the indignity of being carted out of the hall by the cops. He did not lose his aplomb. "I'm being taken down off the arena now by the police," he calmly...