Word: mason
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worked furiously in local campaigns, hauled voters to the polls as soon as he was old enough to drive a car. In 1917 he signed up as an infantry private, developed his parade-ground voice (the House's second loudest, after Illinois' Noah Mason), won lieutenant's bars Stateside before flu struck him down. At Indiana University, one of the big playing fields for future Hoosier politcos, he maneuvered his way to student-union president, helped earn his own way (food manager for Beta Theta Pi fraternity), made Phi Beta Kappa, graduated (A.B., 1922) sixth...
...relationship protected by law in twelve states. Last week, "greatly disturbed" because New York State does not grant its working newsmen this legal safeguard, New York State Assemblyman Edwyn E. Mason proposed a bill that would make reporters immune from prosecution for concealing their sources...
...John Chapman (Daily News) wrote, "A magnificent production of a truly splendid play." John McLain (Journal-American) went so far as to say, "The best play of this or many seasons... reaches heights of poetry and performance seldom attempted in the recent history of the American stage." John Mason Brown '23 did this one better by exclaiming, "Never such greatness in the theatre--not since Mourning Becomes Electra, Green Pastures or Our Town...
Marcel Ugols '61, of Lowell House, Paris, and Havana, business manager, David M. Landon '61, of Lowell House and New York City, circulation manager, and Mason D. Harris, Jr. '61, of Lowell House and Fitchburg, Bacchus, will also take office at the beginning of second semester...
...Year Gone By (CBS, 3:30-5:30 p.m.). A fat table of contents of U.S. life in 1958, as ticked off by eleven scenarists including Critic John Mason Brown, Editor Russell Lynes, Educator James B. Conant, Newscaster Howard K. Smith...