Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reel Two: Onto the scene came the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, in the person of Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins. Wilkins talked when silence made better sense. Said he at an N.A.A.C.P. rally in Jackson: "It should be said that Governor
...battle of New Orleans (Jan. 8, 1815) is remembered as one of the least fortunate maneuvers in British military history (over 2,000 British casualties, 71 American) and as the springboard that launched General Andrew Jackson on his way to the presidency. It now enjoys a third distinction as the subject of a pop disk, The Battle of New Orleans (Columbia), which has sold some threequarter million copies in less than a month. The recorded Battle is the handiwork of Louisiana Country Singer Johnny Horton, but the song has been played by bayou fiddlers for generations. Singer Horton toned down...
Since the death three years ago of Jackson Pollock, young abstractionists in search of a style have acclaimed as their leader New York City's Dutch-born Willem de Kooning, 55. A slim man with steel-grey hair, De Kooning does not welcome the title, shuts himself up in his Greenwich Village studio for weeks at a time, refusing to see visitors or acknowledge telegrams. When Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art this winter offered him a one-man exhibition, he turned it down. He was not ready, he said. In the past three years he has allowed...
Butler made this statement during a press conference which preceded his speech last night at the Young Democratic Club's Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner. At the dinner, attended by Faculty members and local Democrats, Butler spoke on the principles of the Democratic Party and on foreign policy...
...problem of economic aid to underdeveloped countries was the subject of the informal discussion led by Sir Hamilton A. R. Gibb, professors Edward S. Mason, George E. Kirk, and Barbara Ward, Lady Jackson. The panel of economists agreed that the obstacle of political influence and intrigue is one of the greatest impediments to effective economic development...