Word: jaye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Broadway musical based on 100 years of White House history seemed like a Yankee Doodle dandy idea. And 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue would have the services of Leonard (West Side Story) Bernstein, Alan Jay (My Fair Lady) Lerner, a Bicentennial theme and almost $1 million in backing from the Coca-Cola Co. Alas, a pre-Broadway tour met with disastrous reviews. Despite considerable reworking, when the show opened last week in New York City it was plain that Coke had bought fizzle, not fizz. Observed TIME Theater Critic Ted Kalem: "The British burned the White House in 1812, and Lerner...
...about all West Virginia Democrats. Hechler is a lot more acceptable--his ADA rating is 94--but he really wants to be a U.S. senator before he dies, and he's 62. And the word in Kanawha County Democratic circles is that he is running as a favor to Jay Rockefeller, who with James Sprouse is one of the major candidates...
...Jay Rockefeller is John D. Rockefeller IV '58, one of those Rockefellers. Rockefeller ran in 1972, lost by 70,000 votes. There are some who feel a Rockefeller just brings too much money and influence and power to political office. I'm one. Jim Sprouse, the other major candidate, lost in 1968. The word is that Sprouse got Hutchinson to run because Hutchinson will eat into Rockefeller's Kanawha County power base. So then Rockefeller got Hechler to run, holding out the promise of a Senate seat. You see, the senior senator from West Virginia is Jennings Randolph...
...their predicaments too flexible and too easily surmounted. There is even a fairly conventional happy ending, something novel for Rafelson, but it rings false. Uncle Albert's advice to Craig may not have been out of place, after all. Rafelson might think it over too. ∙Jay Cocks...
...number of errors, including oversimplifications, quotations taken out of context and exaggerations of the role the Adamses played in certain events. In one episode, John Adams nominates Washington as Commander in Chief, when in fact he was nominated by Maryland's Thomas Johnson. And it was John Jay, not John Adams, who was the main negotiator of the peace treaty with England...