Word: drew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before this session Udall got in touch with other committee Democrats who felt as he did. Together the rebels drew up 16 rules specifying set times for meetings and establishment of regular subcommittees. They got Sam Rayburn's pledge of neutrality, buttonholed other members of both parties to point out defects in Barden's chairmanship: e.g., seven of nine Administration-supported labor requests were pigeonholed last year without even committee hearings. When this session's first Education and Labor meeting was called last week, the rebels had a majority (17 of 30) committed to their rules changes...
...19th century underworld taken from John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, which holds the record for longevity off-Broadway (560 performances); a revival of The Iceman Cometh, by Eugene O'Neill (225 performances); and Take a Giant Step, by Louis Peterson, another revival, which drew better reviews than the Broadway original...
...deadline drew near last week, Edwards won his point. The city commissioners agreed to a budget of $7,237,861, $1,234,143 below the proposed 1957 figure. To do it, the city slashed the $2,000 Memorial Day Parade Fund to $500, dropped plans to raise the pay of its 1,084 city employees, ordered policemen and firemen to buy their own uniforms, decided not to fill vacancies in many city jobs, ^ and fired 44 municipal employees. The first to go: the mayor's brother, City Bus Supervisor James DiDomenico...
...lure Burns away from Booz, Allen, RCA gave him a ten-year contract providing for a $150,000 salary, with in creases to $200,000 over the next five years (plus an option on RCA stock). But it was not money that drew Burns to RCA. Says he: "I am attracted by the challenge." At RCA, new President Burns will find no shortage of challenges...
...bent over to pick it up for him, and promptly received a kick in the face from the flipper. "That guy was real mean," a local gang leader reminisced later. "He was sort of insane. Playing football, he used to bite guys and wouldn't let go until he drew blood. He was sure a good 'jammer', though." (A jammer is a street fighter who can use his legs and arms and anything else effectively...