Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even dress for the game. Chris Wadley is expected to start in his place. Gene Scott, Yale's high scorer with seven goals, will open at center forward, with John Pearce at the other inside. Jim Sampliner, the Elis' fine outside right, will also start, along with Brian Johnson on the left...
...Civil Rights? Texan Johnson did not mention certain other prospects for a new Congress that might think it had to live up to its liberal billing: automatic death for any natural gas bill, possible reduction of the Texas-cherished 27½% depletion allowance on oil income, an end to conservative and Southern hopes to limit the Supreme Court's powers...
Smoother Operation. Beyond civil rights lay other troubles for both Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn: with the big Northern and Western majorities, such mossbacked committee chairmen as House Rules Committee Boss Howard Smith of Virginia are likely to find themselves under many an organized floor attack from their own party...
Texas' Lyndon Johnson. The most powerful Democrat, the most acceptable candidate to Southerners. If Democrats decide they need the South and if the majority leader wheels and deals well with the Senate's big, new Northern bloc, he could become a compromise candidate...
Welcome Home. Richard Gibson, in Manhattan from Paris for the publication of his new novel, A Mirror for Magistrates, points out that other Negro writers (Ralph Ellison, William Demby, Ben Johnson) have chosen Rome for their voluntary exile. He says: "All these people are in Europe because of social and political causes which everyone knows. The bright young white boys, after the end of their Fulbright scholarships, are able to return with reasonably light hearts to the dens of Madison Avenue or to the provincial Ph.D. factories. It is still impossible for an American Negro to return to the land...