Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Office of Strategic Services, the Senate's Internal Security Subcommittee brought up a strange fish. He was George S. Wuchinich, who served as OSS liaison man with the Communist armies of Yugoslavia and China during the war, and achieved some postwar notoriety as pal of Red Boss Steve Nelson. In 1950 he was named before the House Un-American Activities Committee as one of 13 leading Communists in Pittsburgh...
...homage to such distinguished comics as Jimmy Durante and Joe E. Lewis. Last week many of the regulars appeared as usual, but among them were scattered plenty of newcomers: moviegoers of the '30s who had turned up because the name in the newspaper ads read ''Nelson Eddy." He had been away a long time; they wanted to make sure he was the same old Nelson...
...sang Modernist Alban Berg's Wozzek under Stokowski), Eddy knows on which side his short'nin' bread is buttered. His nightclub and concert audiences would rather hear Short'nin' Bread than Schubert. And as Eddy himself sings in his parody: "Mammy's little Nelson loves short'nin' bread...
Explained anti-union L. Nelson Bell of Montreat: "Most of us went into the meeting armed with sawed-off shotguns and brass knucks. But after meeting in three harmonious sessions for 11½ hours, we came to a unanimous decision. All 39 members were on their knees praying for 25 minutes . . . We feel that God's Holy Spirit led us." The assembly, moved to a man, sang the Doxology and unanimously accepted the committee's report...
...Nelson Rockefeller...