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After Oregon's Wayne Morse bolted the Republican Party, the Democratic liberals besought Johnson to throw Democratic weight behind Morse's demand for seats on important committees. Johnson decided that the Oregon maverick was a Republican problem and the Democrats should not take him over. When one Midwestern Democrat reported a Morse threat to campaign against him if the Democrats didn't come through, Johnson snapped: "You aren't trying to argue that we should give in to political blackmail...
...good-looking, good-for-nothing roughneck (Ralph Meeker), he comes among a widow who had married unwisely for love; her two daughters, one beautiful and besought (Janice Rule), the other bright and coltishly adolescent (Kim Stanley); her boarder, an old-maid schoolteacher with an unmatrimonial-minded beau; her next-door neighbor, a middle-aged woman chained to an invalid mother. The roughneck and the beautiful girl fall hard for each other: there is a climactic scene where they dance slowly and sexually, while the other women look on-awed, envious, aroused. The fellow is sent about his business...
...deathbed, Charles besought his brother and heir, "Let not poor Nelly starve." James II kept faith, and Nelly died rich, of a stroke brought on by an occupational disease...
Died. John Syme, 73, indefatigable one-man crusade against British officialdom; in London. As a police inspector in 1909, he refused to book two men arrested for "unlawfully knocking and ringing" at their own door. Fired, he first besought, then threatened badgered Home Secretary Winston Churchill, was finally jailed for threatening the King & Queen. After 43 jail terms, he became a minor left-wing hero, won a $360 annual pension in reparation from Commons in 1931, continued to orate and smash windows until the noise of war drowned...
Unable to produce the truth, Mrs. Mullane had to accept the consequences. They were to open the letters which the announcer asked his listeners to write, and count the pennies which he besought them to enclose. That would give Mrs. Mullane time to reflect upon British history, might give her enough pennies to buy war bonds for her son in the Marines. It would also give the sponsor an index to the pulling power of his show...