Word: mason
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There is a cyclonic enthusiasm for something other than this bill," said Dirksen. The housing clause would be the first civil rights legislation to hit harder north of the Mason-Dixon line than south of it. From New York to Los Angeles, the law's provision would strike at thousands of entrenched white neighborhoods like the Chicago suburb where whites battled Negro marchers this summer. Few Senators are anxious to go on record in support of the bill, and many Negro leaders, who hoped for a much tougher housing clause, maintain that it is so watered down...
...relative popularity of Jesus Christ and the Beatles (TIME, Aug. 12) proved less than consequential except in the South. Kids and disk jockeys built bonfires of Beatles' records and artifacts, and 20 Texas radio stations maintained a Beatle boycott. During the Beatles' only personal appearance below the Mason-Dixon line, in Memphis, a Christian Youth Rally was scheduled simultaneously. The free-admission protest exhibition drew more than 8,000 people; the Beatles (in two performances) pulled 20,128 at $5.50 a head...
...Zionist Mason. Jessel's real specialty is funerals. Nobody in Hollywood gets buried properly unless Georgie is there to coax a few tears in remembrance. He has played 250 funerals so far, and the most cherished of his eulogies he has included in two of his anthologies. Who can ever forget what he said at Fanny Brice's bierside: "Now my hands fasten to my heart in lament for this all-too-soon exit from the scene. But the great Playwright of this ever-beginning, never-ending plot, the Master Director who so skillfully stages this tightly woven...
...dear departed who devoted themselves especially to Jewish causes, Jessel always has a few extra words of praise. Jack Benny recalls that Jessel's "nicest eulogy was for one of James Mason's cats. You wouldn't believe what that cat had done for Israel...
...teach and do research anywhere in the University. The Board of Overseers voted this Spring to offer him the position. The six other University professors are Paul A. Freund, constitutional lawyer; Paul H. Buck, former provost and American historian; Edward M. Purcell, Nobel laureate in physics; Edward S. Mason, economist; John F. Enders, Nobel laureate in medicine and physiology; and Merle Fainsod, an authority on Russian government and Director of the University Library...