Word: doremus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the discussion of McCarthysim and the age of suspicion. Wechsler's closing pages bear a depressing resemblance to the opening ones of a 1936 novel on dictatorship in America by Singular Lewis. Entitled It Can't Happen Here, Lewis' work tells how it could happen here. His hero, Doremus Jesseup, is a newspaperman not unlike Wechsler, and his dictator is a politician named Berzelius Windrip. In Wechsler's age of suspicion, an embryonic Windrip is incubating; only a cessation of panic and a new faith in freedom, the editor of the Post warns us, will prevent...
...defying the law of gravitation. A regular Garroway feature is his "girl multiplier," that once put 64 identical shots of pert Singer Bette Chapel on the TV screen at one time. Most of the stunts owe their success to a pair of studio carpenters named Weeland Risser and Ralph Doremus,who,in their pre-TV days, happened to work for Magicians Thurston and Blackstone...
Risser and Doremus think last week's elaborately curving baseball is the best special effect they have ever devised, and jealously guard the details of its operation. To bring it off, they ran a string through the baseball to control its flight, used a wide-angle lens to make the ball appear to travel much farther than the four feet it actually went. Says Producer Ted Mills: "We're trying to think with our eyes. So far, everything we've thought of, Risser and Doremus have been able...
...defendant in the case. For 35 years, New Jersey law has prescribed the reading of five verses a day from the Old Testament. Students whose parents object are not required to be present. Even so, two New Jersey taxpayers, Mrs. Anna Klein of Hawthorne and Donald R. Doremus of East Rutherford, members of a group entitled the United Secularists of America, object seriously. They have sued on the grounds that any kind of Bible reading is a violation of the constitutional provision for the separation of church and state. Last October the New Jersey supreme court ruled against Taxpayers Klein...
...Jersey had a law on the books requiring public schools to read pupils five verses of the Old Testament each day, he whistled up his secularist cohorts to the attack. A suit against the state was duly filed by Mrs. Anna Klein, as mother of a student, and Donald Doremus, as a taxpayer, on the ground that the law was unconstitutional (TIME...