Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loudest champions of Britain's workingman, Dr. Hewlett Johnson, "Red Dean" of Canterbury Cathedral, was in the embarrassing predicament of a big employer with a wage dispute on his hands. Early this year Party-Liner Johnson's choristers, restricted to part-time outside jobs because they must warble Evensong at 3:15 p.m. five days a week, asked for a pay hike from $675 a year to $1,000. No strike was threatened, but Dr. Johnson and his chapter cohorts thumbed down the raise, summarily suspended the choristers' spokesman on a handy pretext. Last week, with...
...have cropped up in his joyous string of novels. Gulley Jimson, the rascally painter of The Horse's Mouth, bore the knowing brush strokes of Gary's three-year try at being an artist in turn-of-the-century Paris and Edinburgh. In Mr. Johnson, still the best novel written about modern Africa, Gary drew on his tours of duty as an officer in British West Africa during and after World War I. In A House of Children, written in 1941 and now published in the U.S. for the first time, Novelist Gary summons up memories...
...with four themes in the air at all times: 1) an epic of the soil, 2) a love story, 3) a study of an ex-G.I. reorienting himself to peacetime life, and 4) a rough-and-tumble western. Taking the empty-boxcar and hobo-jungle route, Cam Johnson, the novel's hero, beats his way back to the wheat-belt town of his childhood. Buffalo Coulee is Our Town on Central Standard Time, "a rundown county seat started by French voyageurs, half-breeds and Sioux . . . cut up into prairie lots by the boomers of kiting towns...
...Jorgensen broke his own record in the 220 and Gus Johnson placed third in the "Johnson 440" to highlight the swimming team's otherwise dull 66-18 trouncing of perennially weak Columbia at the I.A.B. Saturday night...
...summaries: 300 medley relay--Harvard (Winthrop, S. Falk, Mischner)--2:58.5. 220 freestyle--Jorgensen (H), Cochran (H), Brown (C)--2:07.5 (new Harvard record--old record 2:07.8 set by Jorgensen March 12, 1955). 50 freestyle--Johnson (H), Clifton (H), Orrik (D)--23.5. 200 individual medley--Hawkins (H), Falk (H), Luikart (C)--2:16.2. One meter dive--Stone (H), Murner (H), Lee (C)--55.75 points. 100 freestyle--Jorgensen (H), Orrik (C), Macky (H)--52.5. 200 backstroke--Santmire (H), Galbraith (C), DuPont (H)--2:29.9. "Johnson 440"--Brown (C), Kastin (H), Johnson (H)--5:25.0. 200 breaststroke--Fowler (H), Silverblatt...