Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make his "successful start" in newsman roles in The Front Page on Broadway in 1928 [Oct. 25]. His acting career actually began two years earlier, in the Jed Harris production of Broadway, playing the hoofer in that show and making an even bigger hit than he did as Hildy Johnson in the Hecht-MacArthur show. "Look at the personality I got" became a byword in the '20s, and he was already a made man by the time the other show came in. Earlier, with Charlie Bickford, just before Broadway, he played a minor part in Glory Hallelujah, opening...
...Moreover, it was a technique with which he could work quickly. So when he was asked to try a cover on the bombing halt, Wheeler was ready the next day with five different versions. The following day, he finished three more. The collage that was finally chosen shows President Johnson framed by a raggedly outlined bomb. The red octagonal shape that makes up the background is the familiar roadside stop sign...
...Viet Nam war has divided and demoralized the American people as have few other issues in this century. It led, on March 31, to Lyndon Johnson's renunciation of the presidency in the realization that he might well have been defeated for reelection. Its steadily growing cost was perhaps the greatest single obstacle to Johnson's hopes of building a Great Society for the U.S. in its cities, countryside and classrooms. The war's ugliness, and the often misunderstood reasons behind U.S. participation in it, greatly contributed to the rebelliousness of America's young. More than...
Traditionally Republican Kansas returned to the fold this year after its flirtation with Johnson in 1964. But despite the Nixon victory, Democratic Gov. Robert Docking won re-election over challenger Rick Harman. Robert Dole, a conservative Republican, won election to the Senate over Wichita lawyer William I. Robinson...
Although President Johnson spoke in his bombing halt-broadcast Thursday as though attendance of both the South Vietnamese and the National Liberation Front was assured, South Vietnam's President Thieu announced a day later that his government would not attend the session on Wednesday...