Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heat up, TIME correspondents last week were hitting the campaign trail. Chicago Correspondent Edwin Darby was in Ohio, finishing his report for this week's cover story on Governor Frank Lausche. At the same time, San Francisco Correspondent Charles Mohr ended a strenuous ten days of zigzagging about northern California, covering Candidates Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver. Exhausted but exhilarated, Charlie Mohr reported: "I'd rather be covering politics in California than in any other state. Where is there such an embarrassment of riches in presidential possibilities? Besides, California politicians are not only good news, they are extremely...
Howard said he was disturbed by Northern complacency and especially "these people who sit in segregated churches feeling virtuous." People like Mississippi's Senator Eastland are as subversive as any communist and should be treated as severely, he stated...
...suggestion in the President's message that the whole idea of quotas based on national origins needs review. Established by a not-so-international Congress in 1924, the present quota system frankly discriminates against Southern and Eastern Europeans and Asians under the theory that people with English or Northern European names make better citizens. In view of the number of contributions made by the unfavored groups in the past, this thesis is absurd. In this respect the President's suggestion for a special, experimental quota of 5,000--to be distributed with regard not to nationality, but to cultural...
Southerners will undoubtedly be offended at the play's vision of them--naive, stupid, raucous, and unable to master their own dialect. There is not a Confederate in the cast. Yankee morals triumph, the plantation's only virgin is corrupted, and tradition falls. Northern gag men must sparkle to get away with this; they don't, principally because the comedy has a minimum number of funny lines. Any Jackie Gleason fan can predict virtually every ensuing speech...
...admixture of comedy and farce, which destroys utterly the few intelligent, sophisticated bits, probably can be blamed on the cast. Director John Gerstad has taken a salon comedy and turned it into a circus-tent shriek show. Practically every player, with the exception of Tom Helmore, the seductive, Northern journalist, over-acts...