Word: morrison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free offer of Breakfast Club membership cards taught him a lesson. More than 850,000 requests poured in, and people still turn up at the broadcasts proudly clutching tattered, nine-year-old cardboards. McNeill's hour-long show originates from the Terrace Casino of Chicago's Morrison Hotel, but 75% of his studio audience comes from outside the city. One Indianapolis bus driver estimates that he has brought 35,000 Hoosier housewives to the show in more than a thousand chartered busloads...
...MORRISON...
...Philip Morrison, associate professor of physics at Cornell University, testified that he joined the Young Communist League at 19, moved into the party at 21, quit in 1940 when he was 25. In 1942, Morrison went to work on the top-secret Manhattan Project, which developed the atom bomb at Los Alamos, N. Mex. In 1945, he went to the Pacific to help ready the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombs. He said his break with Communism was clean, but he granted that only last month he had attended a meeting sponsored by the commie-lining American Peace Crusade in New York...
...Orleans' Mayor Morrison, whose police department was under fire, sided with the TP, whacked the Item for its "scheme ... for the obvious purpose of attempting to produce a scandal." But the Item had the last word. The police department fired Patrolman Brackman for failing to make a prompt report of the bribe offer. And last week the bar-brothel where the baby had been found lost its liquor license. Crowed Tommy Stern's Item: "The Picayune complained . . . that the revenue department investigation 'benefited the Item to the exclusion of other media of public expression.' Cleared...
...Morrison is involved in no crimes or conspiracies. He has led a very good and useful life since then and I must refuse life since then and I must refuse to discuss the political beliefs of my friends at that time...