Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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YOUR father's a dirty scab!" is the shrill cry often heard these days on the quiet streets of Sheboygan, Wis. The gibe of one child against another is being echoed at the adult level as a U.S. Senate committee probes one of the longest, costliest strikes in U.S. history, the United Auto Workers four-year-old strike against the Kohler Co. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The "Almost Sinful" Strike...
...been abetted considerably by the ineptness of Senate Republican leaders and the slow motion at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. After the uproar over the success of Sputnik, it was Johnson, as chairman of the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee, who grabbed the initiative (and the headlines), set up hearings, heard expert testimony from about 200 of the top men in the Defense Department, the armed services, science and industry. So successful was he in capturing the attention of press and colleagues that he produced his own "State of the Union" message two days before the President's own (TIME...
...parks-and he built up a respectable political following which he used as a springboard in 1937 to run for the House of Representatives. Johnson won over nine opponents, and, even before going to Washington, made another great and good friend: Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Fishing in Galveston Bay, F.D.R. heard of the young man who had just been elected on the odd-in conservative Texas -platform of support for Roosevelt's plan to pack the Supreme Court. He called Lyndon Johnson aboard his yacht, liked the cut of his jib. When Johnson arrived in Washington, F.D.R...
...chauffeur, Johnny once took operatic coaching but prepared in college for a teaching career (English). In his spare time, he picked up pin money singing in local clubs and with a semiprofessional opera group. Helen Noga, co-owner of San Francisco's famed Black Hawk nightclub, heard him, introduced him to Columbia Records' George Avakian. His first successful single, Wonderful, Wonderful, sat around for several months before it began lighting boards in San Francisco and Boston. It climbed the charts, catapulted Johnny into a career that should bring him $500,000 this year...
...Eliot, Jacques Maritain, Arnold Toynbee), visiting Professor Chagall was listed to speak on "Art and Life." To this son of an illiterate Russian barrelmaker who has been a refugee from both Communism and Naziism, art and life are synonymous, and both require only love. "Without love," his students heard, "an art is not art, and a life is not life." Chagall ranged wide over his broad subject. Samples: ¶On judgment of art: "It is better for the public to judge the artist according to his work, because the artist himself doesn't know himself. The mirror...