Word: furor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eight years on radio, the show has had remarkably few letters complaining of its plays or the political backgrounds of its casts ("We just forward those letters to U.S. Steel and they answer them"). The biggest furor occurred when the Guild presented Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke on an Easter Sunday. "It was bad timing." concedes Armina Marshall, "because the girl in the play becomes a prostitute. Ever since then on Easter Sunday we try to do a classic." About a dozen plays have been repeated (e.g., Three Men on a Horse, Little Women, Reflected Glory). The biggest audiences...
...impressed" by his judgment and his equanimity, and ended many a post-nomination strategy conference with: "Let's ask Herb." Soon Brownell was slipping in to see Candidate Eisenhower, before long had a chair to put his foot on and a phone to grasp. When the Nixon fund furor broke, it was Brownell who took charge. He talked to some of the wisest heads in the party, studied the legal implications of the fund, flew to Cincinnati to see Eisenhower. He boarded the campaign train one night unseen by the press, spent several hours with Eisenhower, advised...
More eyebrows were raised when the furor over Charles Erwin Wilson's General Motors stock holdings broke. Why had Brownell not foreseen the trouble and steered around it? Brownell says merely that he was not asked and did not advise Wilson on the stock question until after the storm broke. He dismisses the Wilson crisis lightly-perhaps too lightly. Says Brownell: "You have to distinguish between Washington dinner-party conversation-the most deadly thing in public life today-and the actual merits of the case. When a fellow makes a social error on the Hill, that...
...January 7, when most newspapers were discussing Conant's probable activities in Germany, the Post headlines screamed FOES OF CONANT PROMISE BATTLE. "It is likely the furor kicked up by the Charles E. Wilson affair is nothing to that generated by the proposed Conant appointment," the story stated. Relying on a "source" close to Senator McCarthy, the front-page story said the Senator felt the appointment might cost the Republicans the 1954 Congressional elections, and "was of the opinion Conant's name would never reach the Senate floor...
...been carefully planned and valuable. It would have been carried out if there had been no visitors. Responsible Congressmen, after inquiry at the Pentagon, agreed that the operation, despite its unfortunate code name, was in no sense a publicity stunt. Military commanders in Korea were aghast over the furor. General Joseph Lawton Collins, Army Chief of Staff, back in Washington after a trip to the Far East, blamed bad reporting, defended Operation Smack as "sound and legitimate." There would be, he said, "many more like it." It'was a safe bet that next time someone would remember what Churchill...