Word: bolton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jackpot (book by Guy Bolton, Sidney Sheldon & Ben Roberts; music & lyrics by Vernon Duke & Howard Dietz; produced by Vinton Freedley) is a large-scale musical that ran to telephone figures and adds up to zero. Considering how many smart people are involved in it, Jackpot seems almost like a conspiracy of dullness...
Priestley novels reappear in the Elmdown Aircraft factory: Sammy Hamp, whose limp and withered arm accentuates the humility that makes him the happiest man in the place; Edith Shipton, the sex-starved spinster whose shoddy affair with a headmaster is replaced by genuine love for the implacably good Arthur Bolton, whose family and little shop have been obliterated by a Nazi bomb; Sister Filey, in charge of the clinic, whose female vitality is boundless and unbounded by the usual conventions...
Consent of the Governed. All the discussion had not been pitched on so hysterical a level. Ohio's grey, motherly, plain-spoken Republican Frances P. Bolton had warned: "If we cannot change our attitude about race we are going to bring upon the heads of our children . . . a cataclysm." Chicago's William L. Dawson, the only Negro member of Congress, had best stated the issue: "A democracy is that government that exists by the consent of the governed, and that is the thing we are trying to do here today-to give certain citizens the right...
...ROBERT BOLTON...
...Talk. In Bolton "the pub has more buildings, holds more people, takes more of their time and money than church, cinema, dance hall and political organizations put together." Of the city's 180,000 population, about 27,000 (15%) frequented 300 pubs with a round score of 20,000 steady drinkers averaging three pints a day. Of these "regulars," 90% were from 25 to 55 years...