Word: mann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...piano as a youngster, but he went to Princeton to prepare for a law career. Work with Roger Sessions, and the success of a couple of fine jazz albums that he cut for Columbia with his own student combo, changed his mind. After touring the U.S. with Flutist Herbie Mann and a jazz combo, he settled down to serious composition. His most ambitious work to date: an opera about the Ma Barker mob, which appeals to him because "you need subhuman or superhuman characters in opera" and because he hopes that the role of 220-lb. Ma will "resuscitate...
Nowhere has the Kennedy system seemed more like madness than in Latin America. While searching around for a strong Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Kennedy left Ike-appointed Thomas Mann in temporary charge of the State Department desk, but gave policy shaping to Old New Dealer Adolf Berle, 66, chairman of a special Latin America task force. Kennedy also assigned Arthur Schlesinger as a one-man presidential troubleshooter for the continent, later gave Speechwriter Richard Goodwin, 29, responsibility for Cuban affairs. At the time of the Bay of Pigs debacle, Kennedy called Rostow and Bundy away from...
...import of the ideas of all three panelists was best summed up by Alfred's opening quip, which he had attributed to Thomas Mann but later admitted was his own, "If you give the public quality, they will buy quality...
...Have Him Call Me." Back at the white mansion on South Perry Street, John Patterson and his family had finished an informal dinner of charcoal-broiled steaks on the terrace. The Governor was following the progress of the riot by telephone. When Public Safety Director Floyd Mann phoned that the mob was growing, Patterson declared martial law, ordered Adjutant General Henry Graham, a National Guard major general, to lead his troops to the church. Then Patterson called Bobby Kennedy to report that the Guard had gone into action, but that the general could not guarantee the protection of Martin Luther...
...later, Montgomery cops sauntered up. Explained Police Commissioner L. (for Lester) B. Sullivan: "We have no intention of standing police guard for a bunch of troublemakers coming into our city." The state police came after an hour. Neither group was effective. At one point State Public Safety Director Floyd Mann saved a Negro only by pulling a pistol. A group of young whites poured an inflammable liquid on a Negro's clothes and set him on fire. One Montgomery woman held up her child so that he could reach out and beat on a Negro with his fists...