Word: johnsons
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Asserting that this important goal can be achieved only around the giant core of "labor, the farmers and the Negro people," the Communist national committee praised the presidential campaign of Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver as "beneficial in all directions." But it harshly criticized the "Johnson-Rayburn line of 'party unity' with the Dixiecrats," the "Harriman-Truman line of attacking Geneva" and the "vacillations and retreats of Adlai Stevenson." What the U.S. Communist Party must do, its committee said, is to adopt "a more independent course which influences the direction of the Democratic Party...
Organ recital given Sunday afternoon in Memorial Church by seven Harvard, Wellesley and Radcliffe students. General level of performance surprisingly high. Best playing done by James Armstrong (Mendelssohn's Second Sonata) and Kerala Johnson (the long-winded B-Minor Choral of Franck). The others need to work for greater rhythmic precision and vitality, and for clearer articulation...
...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...
While a good deal of talk about Lyndon Johnson as a presidential candidate was spreading across the South, the more likely possibility is that he will turn out to be a kingmaker. A heart attack victim, Lyndon Johnson as candidate would rob the Democrats of an issue they would otherwise use against Dwight Eisenhower. But as a skilled political maneuverer marching into Chicago with a considerable bloc of delegates behind him, he could be in a strong position to affect the nomination...
Added to Lyndon Johnson's clean sweep in Texas last fortnight (TIME, May 14), Collins' primary victory suggested a new fact for the rest of the South and the U.S.: the tone of moderation, drowned out of late in Deep-South Alabama and Georgia, still has its charms in the prospering Southern periphery...