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Even more disturbing to the White House, since it flaunted a forbidden word, was a speech by a faithful, discreet and nonpartisan public servant. Commissioner of Labor Statistics Ewan Clague. In Atlantic City to address the Interstate Conference on Labor Statistics, Clague became the first member of the Administration to admit that a recession might very well be in sight. If the postwar economic cycle repeats itself, said Clague, a recession is likely to occur in 1963. Noting that many economists have been expecting a recession, he said: "The only question has been exactly when it is coming...
...Ewan MacColl is the best folksinger. This opinion is supported by both of my friends. With Peggy Seeger he has recorded a great number of albums for Folkways: "Border Ballads"--songs of the Scottish wars; "Bothy Ballads of Scotland"--a collection of songs found in bothies, which are the lodging-houses of ploughmen on great estates; and (this time on Tradition) "Classic Scots Ballads"--a collection of just that. Another Scottish folksinger is Jeannie Robertson, who is what they call "an auld dear," and who is billed as "The Greatest Scottish Folksinger" on a Prestige International recording. The accent makes...
Commissioner of Labor Statistics Ewan Clague, whose department is now working on the C.P.I.'s regular ten-year revision, denies that any "enormous rise" in the index could be caused by a failure to measure quality improvements, but concedes that there may be some upward bias in his much-respected index...
RONALD A. EWAN...
...years later she founded an itinerant repertory group with a playwright-folksinger named Ewan MacColl, then known as Jimmy Miller, who later became her husband. The ten-member troupe traveled the north country in an ancient truck, often using the tailgate for a stage. Scattered in World War II, five of the players were killed; the other five grew into the Theater Workshop...