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...inclusive list, said Senate Majority Leader Bob Taft; other items would be added later. By this week, one big item had already been added. With New York's old (77) Daniel Alden Reed calling the play, the House Ways & Means Committee (voting 21-4) approved a tax bill without even bothering to hold hearings. It was H.R.-1 Committee Chairman Reed's bill to cut individual income taxes about 10% effective July 1. But both the House and Senate leaders (with White House blessing) were prepared to roadblock H.R.-1, and any other tax-cut bill, at least...
...surprising that all the characters in Plymouth Adventure spend a great deal of time impressing people with who they are. Van Johnson, in particular, greets everyone with a hearty handshake and an introduction: "I'm John, John Alden." Neither is it surprising that all the Pilgrims show a superhuman piety and fearlessness, that they are all cultured and very proper, acting more like their descendants than the hardy tinkers and tailors they were. For the producers of this movie were obviously concerned lest they shatter any primary school images. So they have handled the Pilgrims carefully. The only boorish character...
...passenger list also included handsome young Cooper John Alden (Van Johnson) and baby-faced Priscilla Mullins (Dawn Addams). As for Captain Myles Standish (Noel Drayton), the picture portrays him as a happily married man who never courted Priscilla at all. With a shortage of food and water, but not of romance, the Mayflower finally makes Provincetown...
...beauty, and asking for a third term. His key line: "If you have a problem, write to me." Reporters noticed, however, that Langer did not kiss babies. An admirer explained: "Old Bill, he's smart. He knows this is the antiseptic age." Traveling with him was Reporter Alden MacLachlan of Bismarck, representing ten A.P. newspapers. Langer always introduced him as "the reporter from the Fargo Forum [an anti-Langer paper] who follows me around to write lies about me . . . Stand up and let them see what your kind of man looks like." Back in the car, Langer would chuckle...
...separatists from the Church of England, fleeing King James I's persecution. Even those refugees emerge as an earthy, red-blooded lot. The rest of the voyagers are as rowdy a band of adventurers and vagabonds as ever set sail. Aboard is a young cooper named John Alden (played by Van Johnson), who keeps the passengers' whisky and beer barrels in repair. Captain Myles Standish is below-decks most of the time; Researcher Deutsch decided that Standish was already married and probably not courting Priscilla Mullins...