Word: balch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marston Balch has directed a cast that has entered well enough into the spirit of the piece. The three principals have even managed to impart a third dimension to their roles: Jacquelyn Zollo as the Grandmother; Joyce White as Isabel; and Lake Bobbitt as Maurice. Though perhaps a bit young-looking for the role, Bobbitt sails through the evening with a dashing naturalness. And the whole production benefits from Thaddeus Gesek's handsome settings, including a wonderful multicolored spiked mobile for the enigmatically daft first...
Cook County's Jack Arvey, last of the big-city-machine bosses, wandered aimlessly around the Conrad Hilton Hotel, his local and national power diminished in the last year. At least, the assembled pols knew Arvey. Most of them did not even recognize Richard Balch, chairman of the once-powerful New York State organization. The voice of labor was muted, too. The C.I.O.'s James Carey and Jack Kroll offered little advice and were asked for less. Representative Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., who has caused hard feelings with his demands for 100% party loyalty, was not present. Many...
...state chairman, the central committee chose Richard H. Balch (pronounced bawltch) a wealthy and genial fishing-tackle manufacturer from Utica. Behind Balch was the Fair Deal wing of the party, led by ailing Bronx Boss Ed Flynn, Mutual Security Director W. Averell Harriman and Representative Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. Behind the loser -one William H. Morgan of Cortland-was the conservative wing, led by former National Chairman and Postmaster General (1933-40) James A. Farley. After his election, Balch promptly demonstrated that his organization is still seriously divided: he hinted broadly that he didn't even consider Old Headmaster...
...Democratic nominee for governor in 1954 will be Harriman or Roosevelt, and not Farley. However, a close look at the vote prompted some second thoughts. With most of the organization's wheels against him, Farley had managed to get 104 votes for his man to 181 for Balch. Farley's side got more votes than Balch did outside of New York City. This was not a bad showing for a man who has done little but shake hands in the back of the hall for the past eight years. Big Jim had been knocked down in an early...
...everybody else, it was a tough time to be a college student. Going home for Christmas holidays, hundreds of thousands of draft-age young men on U.S. campuses were suffering from what Stanford's Counselor for Men Richard Balch labeled "draft neurosis." In its essence, their malady stemmed neither from fear nor any lack of patriotism. It was simply a form of bewilderment: they all wanted to know if they were going to be called into the Army, and if so, when. Nobody on earth could tell them...