Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crucible also suffers from an occasional note of strain and shrillness in the writing, and this is pointed up by Michael Murray's somewhat overwrought direction, which tends too much toward stealthy, wildly disarrayed entrances and impassioned throwings to the ground. The play needs this sort of effect, and would be dull if Mr. Miller had not contrived frequent occasion for it; but Mr. Murray does not know quite when to stop. However, he has handled several of the crises with great skill...
...latter, the varsity will swim Tom Bartlett, Bill Schellstede, and Bill Murray, with hopes that Schellstede can slip into the finals. Bob Komenda, a 440-yard competitor all season, will enter the gruelling 20 minute, 1500-meter freestyle...
...years that he has held the job, pleasant, retiring Murray Snyder has quietly become one of the most contentious figures in Washington. The military men, contractors to the Department of Defense, and newsmen who deal with Snyder are close to unanimous in the opinion that he stands as a major obstacle in the way of sensible and constructive reporting of the U.S. defense posture. More than a year ago V. M. Newton Jr., managing editor of the Tampa Tribune and chairman of the Advancement of Freedom of Information Committee of Sigma Delta Chi, laid a bitter protest against "Pentagon secrecy...
...White House. The son of a Brooklyn coffee merchant, Murray Snyder worked his way up from sportswriter on the San Antonio Light to political reporter for the New York Herald Tribune. Invited to the White House by Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty in 1953, Snyder put in four years as Hagerty's assistant. He has attempted to quiet some of his critics by saying that the public information policies he follows come straight from the White House...
...Defense post, Snyder works long hours, most of them behind his closed office door. He rarely goes out, and newsmen rarely go in; many a Pentagon reporter has not talked to Murray Snyder in months. On the infrequent occasions when he talks to newsmen, there is usually a Snyder aide sitting by, auditing the interview. Newsmen, military officers and defense contracting industrialists go over, under and around him in their efforts to tell the U.S. defense story. All of this dismayed Congressman John E. Moss's Subcommittee on Government Information. A repeated witness before this and the House Armed...