Word: bostonians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Policy on the Move. Concern with "softness" goes deeper. Said the Rev. Homer McEwen, Negro pastor of Atlanta's First Congregational Church: "We have lost our traditional thrust toward a moral society." Watching the modern morality play unfold in Washington, a Bostonian remarked: "The awful thing about the quiz show scandals is that we're looking at ourselves." But a Los Angeles man said, "This television mess is a pimple on the body politic-what Kennedy is talking about is the real illness...
...Very Model. Few men are better suited to present the public image of trust and integrity fostered by the funds than Dwight Robinson. He is the very model of a Proper Bostonian, from his steel-rimmed spectacles and dark, conservative suits-he always wears a vest in the office -to his clubs (Union, Longwood Cricket) and his finely polished sense of discretion...
...Clare Boothe Luce's resignation as Ambassador to Brazil, President Eisenhower last week turned to a career man to be envoy to the biggest, most populous neighbor in Latin America. The new nominee: John Moors Cabot, 58, foreign service veteran (since 1926), currently U.S. Ambassador to Colombia, and Bostonian of first-family lineage...
...play was still doing well at the box office, and there was even an outside chance that it might complete its scheduled six-week run at the Palace Theater in London's West End. If Slickey makes it, the credit will go to a gusty young (35) Bostonian named David Pelham, who has bailed himself out of flops before with gimmicks, guts and gall...
...Hernan Siles Zuazo (in the drab, grey palace where he is guarded constantly by an unmanned machine gun) got worried, 10,000 copies of Time got burned, the American embassy got attacked. Summoned from Secretary Dulles' cloud chamber at Walter Reed Army Hospital, temporarisecretary Chris Herter, a genially proper Bostonian, expressed hope that "a magazine would not be permitted to disturb the traditionally good relations that have existed between our two countries and that the Bolivian Government officials would take all steps to avoid further incidents...