Word: joshing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like Winston & F.D.R. Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson followed Ayub by a few hours. On his fifth visit to Washington since Johnson took office, Wilson felt sufficiently at home to josh the President on a sensitive subject. When Johnson commented lightly on the Labor Party's precarious two-seat margin in Parliament, the Prime Minister shot back with a remark about Johnson's "86 votes"-a nearly accurate reference to the scandal-tinged 1948 Texas senatorial primary in which Lyndon squeaked through by 87 votes. The President protested: "You haven't been here six hours...
Salt & Pepper. At the Memorial, the first order of business was a program of professional entertainment. Folk Singers Joan Baez, Josh White, Odetta, Bob Dylan, Peter-Paul-and-Mary rendered hymns and civil rights songs. Actor Marlon Brando brandished an electric cattle prod of the sort sometimes used by cops against civil rights demonstrations. Author James Baldwin, Actors Paul Newman, Burt Lancaster, Charlton Heston made appearances. And onetime Folies-Bergère Star Josephine Baker looked out at the biracial crowd and snapped satisfiedly: "Salt and pepper-just what it should...
Directions '63 (ABC, 1:30-2 p.m.). In a TV play based on Henri Gheon's Christmas in the Market Place, Folk Singer Josh White stars as one of a group of migrant workers in Florida who set up a tent to act out the Nativity scene...
...write an article on this subject without at least mentioning Josh White...
...Higgins seems a bit of a reach, it is rivaled by some of the most frantically contrived situations in the history of situation comedies. The hero of NBC's Don't Call Me Charlie is a young, handsome, naive, lovable veterinarian named Judson McKay (Josh Peine) who is drafted out of Muscatine, Iowa, and sent by the Army to Paris. The Charlie in the title is a colonel (John Hubbard), who is the vet's superior officer. When his girl (Linda Lawson) falls in love with the boy vet, Charlie tries to ship...