Word: harold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposed system of salaried football could put Harvard in the Big Ten, Boston Globe sports writer Harold Kaese figured out yesterday. He referred to an Ohio State University report suggesting that colleges openly hire their teams...
...Parliament reassembled last week for a two-day debate of Britain's economic situation. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Conservatives were grim. Behind them was a series of defeats in by-elections; ahead of them, demands from 5,000,000 British workers, led by the railwaymen, for a new round of wage boosts. But Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Thorneycroft doggedly stood the Tories' ground...
...Thorneycroft announced that the government would veto all wage increases for its own employees in the ministries and nationalized industries, hoped thereby to set an example for private industry. Further wage hikes, warned Thorneycroft, "would be a disaster to this country." Snapped the Labor Party's economic spokesman, Harold Wilson: "A straight declaration of war" against the trade unions...
Jamaica (music and lyrics by Harold Arlen and E. Y. Harburg; book by Harburg and Fred Saidy) boasts Lena Horne and much that is stylish and charming. Its achievement, to be sure, is more one of atmosphere than of action, of grace than of speed. The humor in Jamaica is covert and glancing; the very hurricanes blow up too fast to be spectacular; even the calypso recalls an island charmer of long...
...more promising book. But though the book of Jamaica, in short, has an idiot simplicity and an almost insolent lack of purpose, it sort of timidly shuffles about between tunes, seldom even daring to let go with gags. Moreover, the book has Lena Horne on every page, and Harold Arlen to turn the page while she is singing one or another of his songs. She is beautiful, and with what elegant sexuality she twists about in tight-curving, fishtail skirts. She is accomplished in a way all her own, seldom raising her voice, never neon-lighting her effects. With equal...