Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After leading his team to second place in the New England Intercollegiate Flying Association meet. Whedon Johnson '40 was elected to the presidency of the group...
Biggest moneymaker: the Shuberts' and Olsen & Johnson's production of Hellzapoppin. Most costly flop: Dwight Wiman's production of Great Lady. Most gored theme: antifascism, which begot four failures. Up the ladder: The Group Theatre, which produced Clifford Odets' intense Rocket to the Moon, revived his brilliant Awake and Sing, presented William Saroyan's over-rated but original My Heart's in the Highlands. Down the chute: Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre which, after its sensational doings last season, collapsed on Broadway with the anemic Danton's Death, on tour with...
...Johnson City, Tenn., a student at East Tennessee State Teachers College became suspicious last week when a strange, nervous boy turned up and said he was going to enroll. Police looked him over, found an automatic pistol in his car, got him to admit he was Junior Burgunder. He swore that all he knew of the Phoenix killings was what he had heard over the radio...
Forty thousand people crowded Cammell Laird & Co., Ltd.'s historic shipyard at Birkenhead. Princess Mary, the Princess Royal, only sister of the Duke of Windsor, said, "I name this ship Prince of Wales. May God guide her and guard and keep all who sail in her." Robert Johnson, head of Cammell Laird, was less restrained: "If I were in Chancellor Hitler's shoes and heard of the wonderful speed at which we can turn out our ships, I think I'd turn on my axis...
Looking over its 44,000,000 old-age-insurance accounts, the Social Security Board named its "First 50 Families." First: Smith (418,000). Next in order: Johnson (350,530); Brown...