Word: milholland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least a couple of U.S. contributions figured importantly in the proceedings. The R.A.F. announced that when R.A.F. Jet Squadron 74 whips over Buckingham Palace in a flypast honoring the newly crowned Queen, it will be led by U.S. Air Force Major George W. Milholland, and include three other American flyers on temporary duty with the R.A.F. Another U.S. offering, an ode to Queen Elizabeth by one Palmer H. Hjelle of Minnesota, was, however, politely declined. Sample verse...
Twentieth Century (by Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur, based on a play by Bruce Milholland) turned up, after nearly 20 years, as a pleasant Christmas surprise. Its revival also seemed a sort of desperate remedy. It is as near to rich, round entertainment as the American National Theater and Academy has come. It is also about as far from what ANTA should be doing as so high-purposed an organization could go. Twentieth Century is a brazenly commercial farce, made into a sure thing with Jose Ferrer's sturdy reputation and Gloria Swanson's sudden new fame...
...privately owned New York housing project; some of the organizations which have defended Lorch suggest that anti-Semitism may have entered into the firings. But both colleges deny this. A C.C.N.Y. spokesman said Lorch's anti-discrimination activities "had nothing to do with his non-reappointment," and James Milholland, acting president of Pennsylvania State College, has written the CRIMSON that his college's decision was "not based on (Lorch's) action in inviting Negroes to live in his apartment... nor... on his political views...
...Milholland was referring to an incident after Lorch's one-year appointment to Penn State last September, following the New York City Board of Higher Education's approval of the C.C.N.Y. firing in July. Lorch turned over his Stuyvessan Town apartment o a Negro family; he claims that Penn State's assistant to the President A.C. Morse subsequently questioned him about this move and told him that it was "extreme, illegal, and immoral, and damaging to the public relations of the College...