Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First of all, Lyndon Johnson was concerned whether Holaday had "the facilities that truly make you a director in charge of missiles or whether you just have the title." Asked to define his duties, Holaday said: "I would act more like a vice president of a corporation." Then, after a vague explanation of what a corporation vice president might do, Holaday asked hopefully: "Does that help?" Replied Subcommittee Counsel Edwin Weisl bleakly...
...Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (1945-48), five-star General Dwight Eisenhower was one of the chief architects of the National Security Act of 1947, which set up the separate U.S. Air Force and was also designed-though with numerous compromises-to "unify" the armed services. As President of the U.S., Dwight Eisenhower has a better basic knowledge of how the services work than any President in modern history. Yet, paradoxically, one of the soft spots of his Administration record is that, during the regime of Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson, Ike let Pentagon administration get out of hand...
...Theatre Workshop's presentation of Bertolt Brecht's one-act play The Exception and the Rule is an extremely interesting exercise in experimental theatre...
Everyone got into the act last night as the Crimson varsity basketball team smashed Northeastern, 102 to 71, to extend its undefeated skein to six and to establish a new team scoring record. The team opens its Ivy League season...
...dream dissolve in one frantic moment of stage fright three years after he graduated from the University of Kansas (class of 1935). "I played the choir master in an amateur production of Our Town," recalls Inge, "and suddenly I found I was terrified, too self-conscious to ever act again." Later, he spent an unhappy period as a high school and college teacher ("I experienced almost the same terrors as I did as an actor"). He was turning out drama reviews for the St. Louis Star-Times when Tennessee Williams came to town in 1944. Inge interviewed Williams about playwriting...