Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first to hear the click was State G.O.P. Chairman Judson Morehouse. A year ago Morehouse had scribbled down the names of potential candidates: Tom Dewey, onetime Attorney General Herbert Brownell, U.S. Senator Jacob Javits. onetime G.O.P. National Chairman Hall. As a longshot he added Rockefeller, who had been a dependable campaign contributor ($10,000 a year). Morehouse dispatched poll takers across the state to see which name rang bells, was not surprised when Three-Termer Dewey's bonged loudest. But chiming in second place and tolling louder with each sample was Nelson Rockefeller. Realist Morehouse tore up his list...
...willingly complied, and chose Shaw's Saint Joan. On hearing of the choice, Shaw cabled: "Delighted to hear St Joan being done at Harvard stop have always wanted to see Joan played by male." The choice was excellent; and the production, in Sanders Theatre, was magnificent. Typical of Kilty's directive imagination was the decision to perform the coronation scene in the transept of Memorial Hall. The audience moved out of Sanders and became the congregation; the scene was played on a specially constructed altar at the north end, while fire-department searchlights outdoors focussed on the stained-glass windows...
...Dallas base, scrappy Charlie McCarty, 42, caught a glimpse of a picture in the making: two white boys approaching a Negro boy and his sister as they walked past an all-white junior high school. McCarty wheeled in a U-turn, grabbed his Rolleiflex, sprinted up in time to hear the Negro boy say he would not get off the sidewalk. "I could see it building up in him," says McCarty. "I knew he was going to hit one of them." When the punch came, McCarty caught a memorable picture of a teen-ager exploding in a burst of rage...
...private school plan will be attacked this morning in Omaha, Neb. There, a two-judge federal court will hear an injunction plea seeking to stop the Little Rock School Board from leasing its properties to a private corporation...
...beautiful thing--I can hardly wait to hear Biggsie play...