Word: newmans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mary B. Newman, Cambridge state representative, claimed in a recent news-letter that her removal from the Massachusetts Committee on Labor and Industries was an act of retribution by House Speaker John F. ("Iron Duke") Thompson...
...Newman, who opposed Thompson's re-election as speaker, criticized in the newsletter his misuse of "committee assignments as a system of reward and punishments, with complete indifference to the important part these committees play in carrying on the work of the Legislature...
Writing the newsletter to Cambridge voters, Mrs. Newman also described the battle which preceded the Republicans' re-election of Sidney Curtiss as a party leader. Mrs. Newman indicated that the close 47 to 40 vote in favor of Curtiss reflected a basic Republican discontent with his lack of "dynamic and imaginative action" during the last session...
Exhibition: 14 American Painters (CBS, 4-5 p.m.). A special showing American painters at work in their studios, including Robert Motherwell, James Brooks, Barnett Newman, Hans Hofmann, Stuart Davis, Larry Rivers, Elaine de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg...
...gifted member of the group is Wilton Felder, who is the first really exciting thing to happen to the tenor saxophone since Sonny Rollins came out of retirement a couple of years ago. Felder, at the age of 21, has already developed a unique style, as tough as David Newman's but in a different way. Felder's horn has an extremely clean, virile, somewhat angry sound; its emotional quality is strong and sincere. Occasionally, he uses a little vibrato (almost heretical in modern jazz); the contrast with his precise phrasing is quite effective. The other Crusaders are Wayne Henderson...