Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ladyldllers. Farcical larceny, with light-fingered Alec Guinness lifting ?60,000 from an armored truck and then los ing it-and the picture-to scene-stealing Katie Johnson (TIME, March...
Perles was working for the Paris edition of the Chicago Tribune when the conjunction took place. With all the avuncular patronage of Dr. Johnson being kind for once to Boswell, Miller says kind things of the first meeting with "my good friend Alf." But like Boswell's initial confrontation with Johnson, it was not a success. "There was no click," Perles confesses sadly. Yet, "was I already under the spell of that personality which was later to manifest itself in his epoch-making books?" Two years later the question was answered. He was-even though Miller "talked through...
...less lustrous level and in less creative guise. Much, instead of being directly created for the stage, was made over from something else, whether in such clear successes as The Diary of Anne Frank, No Time for Sergeants and The Ponder Heart, or such interesting failures as Mister Johnson and The Young and Beautiful. At straight playwriting, Arthur Miller came closest to real achievement with A View from the Bridge, but he let a longing for Greek tragedy blur the play's kinship with primitivist drama...
John Monroe Johnson, 78, acting chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission since 1950, retired. "Steamboat" Johnson was appointed to the regulatory agency by President Roosevelt in 1940, won President Truman's blessing after he refused to step down at the mandatory retirement age of 70. A civil engineer, Johnson served as a sergeant in the Spanish-American War, was chief engineer in the Rainbow Division in France during World War I. He went to Washington as Assistant Secretary of Commerce in 1935, later earned a reputation as one of the slow-moving ICC's most effective members...
...Ladykillers. Farcical larceny, with light-fingered Alec Guinness lifting ?60,000 from an armored truck and then losing it-and the picture-to scene-stealing Katie Johnson (TIME, March...