Word: johnstons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were six convicts who had trapped unarmed Captain Sanders in his office. Since Captain Sanders had given instructions to disregard any order he might give under such circumstances, Corporal Christmus called Prison Superintendent J. S. Wilson. Colonel Wilson called South Carolina's 41-year-old Governor Olin Dewitt Johnston, who hurried to the prison. Toward the window of Captain Sanders' office marched the Governor with his hands deep in his overcoat pockets...
Said Governor Johnston to the Guardsmen: "Go ahead boys, let them have...
...TIME err in saying that Samuel Goldwyn was never associated with M-G-M (TIME, Nov. 15, p. 42) ? According to The Great Goldwyn by Alva Johnston, Goldwyn was once a part of MGM. Evidently this must be correct for rumor has it that Goldwyn bought 5,000 copies [of this book...
Samuel Goldwyn according to his own office was never connected with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The "Goldwyn" in M-G-M is his original Goldwyn Pictures Corp. which merged with Metro and Mayer in 1924, two years after Sam Goldwyn himself had left it. Alva Johnston's account does not directly contradict this fact...
Died. Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, 84. British actor famed for his noble Shakespearean roles, which he played from 1874 until he retired from the professional stage 21 years ago; in St. Margaret's Bay, Dover, England. The greatest of his 130-odd parts was that of Hamlet, whom he thought ''not mad." merely "waxed desperate with imagination...