Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With two-thirds of the show sold (to Aluminium Ltd. and Union Carbide), and the other third bid for, Omnibus kicked off with a slickly attractive white-shoe production of Stover at Yale, a tongue-in-dimpled-cheek musical adaptation by Douglass (Damn Yankees) Wallop of the old Owen Johnson stories. Much of the play lived up to Alistair Cooke's introduction of it as "a gentle thing, both odd and funny." When the boola overflowed with the fun of the Turkey trot, ragtime and jagtime at Mory's, and naughty dancing girls at lesser saloons, Stover came...
Student Council President Larry R. Johnson '58 disclosed yesterday that the Committee on Educational Policy had refused to place into effect the three recommendations of the Student Council Report "Religion at Harvard," and had discontinued discussion of the report...
...Johnson said that he learned of the Committee's action from Dean Bundy who is now in Detroit and unavailable for comment. Johnson declared that he approved of the committee's action since he was opposed to the recommendations but that he hoped that "the Committee will not violate the spirit of the report...
Windshield Wipers? The bland attitude gave priceless mileage to the Administration's Democratic critics. Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, already planning a full-scale investigation of the Administration's missile policy, said bitterly in an Austin, Texas speech: "The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads. Later−when men moved to the sea−the British Empire was dominant because it had ships. In the air age, we were powerful because we had airplanes. Now the Communists have established a foothold in outer space. It is not very reassuring to be told that next...
...nonpolitician draw a line across the G.O.P.; so did the Republican National Committee. The Democrats got riled at Larson's professional stump speeches ("Throughout the New and Fair Deals, this country was in the grip of a somewhat alien philosophy, imported from Europe"), and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson personally took on the task of cutting the hapless Larson to pieces. Thus, when Larson set out to win a $31 million increase to $144 million in USIA funds last spring, the House and Senate contemptuously scissored his appropriations to $96 million...