In Popular Culture
- Smathers Beach, a popular Key West destination, is named after the senator.
- The handsome politician was known as "Gorgeous George", after the famous professional wrestler who appeared under that monicker, by his detractors.
- Smathers appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and was frequently a guest on Larry King Live and other news programs.
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
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—Administration in the State of Sout, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“The aggregate of all knowledge has not yet become culture in us. Rather it would seem as if, with the progressive scientific penetration and dissection of reality, the foundations of our thinking grow ever more precarious and unstable.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)
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