Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bugs & Jimmy. Columnists' comments were heady indeed. Humphrey, said New York Timesman Arthur Krock, had pulled off "the launching of the first American presidential campaign from the steps of the Kremlin." Headlined David Lawrence's column: KHRUSHCHEV-HUMPHREY TALK TOUCHED ON RELIGION, MORALS. Glowed Doris Fleeson: "It's a very merry Christmas for Hubert Humphrey." The New York Times's Washington Bureau Chief James Reston, noting that Washington had long been skeptical of Humphrey, wrote of a reappraisal: "He has been suffering for years from the original impression he created here as a gabby, to-hell...
Cautious and deliberate by nature, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany has a terrible temper when pressed-and Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield pressed him. Unless businessmen get into politics, Republican Summerfield warned the National Association of Manufacturers fortnight ago, "candidates hand-picked by union bosses and elected by the campaign activities directed by union bosses will come to dominate the halls of Congress and, Heaven forbid, eventually perhaps the White House itself...
Miyoshi's live-wire agent booked her all over the country-in nightclubs, auditoriums, small-town theaters. Then she got on Tennessee Ernie Ford's TV show and Arthur Godfrey's morning show. On the Godfrey show, Miyoshi was noticed by Warner's casting director, who brought her to Josh Logan, who hired her for the role of Katsumi in Sayonara...
...Latin or Greek. It had been put forward most recently in 1948, when the dons voted it down 250-155, and the clamor against enforced classicism was going strong again last week. Most clangorous clamorer: gadfly-sized (5 ft. 5 in., 150 lbs.), distinguished Cambridge Author-Astronomer Raymond Arthur Lyttleton (who lists among his recreations, in Who's Who, "wondering about...
...Henry Dionisio should give the Crimson trouble in the middle distance races, McCurdy predicted, and Donald Silpe may prove too strong for Sandy Dodge in the dash. Terrier miler Bob Wells and high jumper Neil Morgan will allow the favored Crimson trackmen little margin for error, and Arthur Reed could give Landau a tough time in the hurdle event...