Word: backers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three boys from Syracuse who founded Broadway's theatrical empire; of a stroke; in his Manhattan penthouse atop Sardi's 44th Street restaurant. In the partnership, Older Brother Sam was the producer and Middle Brother Lee the businessman; "J.J." touched both sides of the business, playing backer to Florenz Ziegfeld, producing more than 500 shows, and sending Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson, Marilyn Miller and Bert Lahr on their way to stardom. Until 1956, when the U.S. Government settled an antitrust suit, the Shuberts controlled half of all U.S. legitimate theaters; the business (24 theaters in Manhattan and four...
...Republican support remains remarkably solid even outside the South. Says Illinois' G.O.P. Gubernatorial Candidate Charles Percy, who is certainly no right-winger: "Since Johnson took office, I've traveled from 1,200 to 1,500 miles around the state, and I haven't met one Goldwater backer who has changed his mind." Says Wyoming's State Chairman John Wold: "Goldwater has been hurt in our state, but he can still carry it." Says Denver County Chairman Robert Lee: "Goldwater sentiment remains very strong in Colorado...
Prof. Howe will reportedly ask Speaker of the House John W. McCormack to make every effort to secure passage of the entire bill. Howe was a prominent backer of the Speaker's nephew, former Attorney General Edward J. McCormack, Jr., in his unsuccessful Senatorial primary campaign against Edward M. Kennedy '54 last year...
What was it all about? Well, it was about a Waldorf banquet for U.S. Representative Charles A. Buckley, 72, Democratic boss of The Bronx. Buckley, best known in the House for his chronic absenteeism, is an old friend of Joe Kennedy's, was an active backer of Jack's presidential candidacy as early as 1957, looks fondly on all Kennedys-and with reason. It was therefore only natural that the President of the U.S. should dictate a telegram to be sent to Buckley in New York on the night of the dinner. It said: "We want to join...
...Died. Mohammed Khemisti, 32, Algeria's young Foreign Minister, a staunch backer and longtime friend of Premier ben Bella, who put aside old hatreds to become the prime architect of Algeria's post-revolutionary cooperation with France, winning himself the high respect of Western diplomats; of a head wound received 24 days earlier when an insane Moslem shot him at point-blank range; in Algiers...