Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jeanette MacDonald-Nelson Eddy type of musicals are nauseating. You have probably seen those 40-year-old Hollywood bombs on television, with their foolish plots, childish dialogue and overdose of song and dance, tap-tap-tap. They always feature a pretty (though never sexy) heroine and her smiling, good-natured boyfriend caught in some "terrible...
Long before our heroine is rescued, you will have realized that Sunshine is not so gullible as its title and plot line suppose. In reality, Sunshine is nothing less than a very funny musical comedy satire of the Nelson Eddy and Jenette MacDonald films that were so popular in the 1930's. The show played successfully on Broadway for three years in the early sixties and now a group of freshmen at the Quad are directing and producing it in an attempt to show Dean Fox, as director Greg Dealwie '80 has pointed out, that freshmen aren't just sitting...
When New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller asked Jones in 1970 to serve on the Public Service Commission because he was a well-known expert on antitrust and regulatory law, Jones agreed but only on condition that he could continue teaching at Columbia. But even while teaching, he also enrolled himself as a student in statistical techniques. Says he: "Mathematics is going to be an increasingly important part of legal development, and I do not wish to become obsolete." There is little danger of that, for Jones applies the same tactic to his teaching. Says he: "The largest part of teaching...
...income people and the elderly are suffering most. St. Paul resident Ernest Wallin, 72, complains: "Our utility bills have gotten so high that we are having to go into our savings to pay them." In some cases, fuel bills are nearing or exceeding mortgage payments. In South Chicago, Betty Nelson, a mother of five children, got a $198 gas bill, far larger than her mortgage payment...
...other multimillion-dollar corporations, the president and secretary of the Kansas City Star Co. do not have offices of their own. Instead, they sit at desks in the newsroom, under the direct gaze of the staff. That is only fitting. Since 1926, when the estate of Founder William Rockhill Nelson was liquidated, the newspaper firm has been owned lock, stock and Linotype by its employees...