Word: olesen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...implications of the system were lucidly reflected last month by the peculiar turnabout of Committeeman George F. Olesen. Olesen decided last spring that he wouldn't run for reelection, and the Committee is losing its most colorful though hardly its most progressive members. Olesen is a tall, slightly stooped young man, who roams around the Committee room during meetings, whispering messages into his fellow Independent's ears, always appearing to be lining up the votes for some obscure maneuver. He cross-examines witnesses with the pugnacious gusto of a TV lawyer, and has attacked Mrs. Ackermann with such virulence that...
...faces on next year's Committee will probably be Daniel J. Clinton and David A. Wylie. Clinton, who has just missed election twice before drew heavily on the central Cambridge votes that used to go to Committeeman George F. Olesen. And Wylie, one of nine candidates endorsed by the CCA, wooed support from the same constituency that elected Committeewoman Barbara Ackermann who this year ran for the Council...
...nine incumbents are running again for the Council, and four incumbent school committeemen--Francis H. Duehay, assistant dean of the Graduate School of Education, Gustave M. Solomons, James F. Fitzgerald, and John A. P. Good--have filed for the School Committee. Of the other two current committeemen, George F. Olesen Jr. is not seeking re-election, and Barbara Ackerman is a Council candidate...
Hathaway's soloists were a mixed bag. Tenor James Olesen executed his brief role passionately and with excellent German enunciation. Sharon King as Marcellene was controlled on pitch but was easily overpowered by any of the other soloists. Freshman phenomenon David Ripley acquitted the part of Don Fernando valiantly but seemed to be worrying too much about getting all the notes to do anything with them. Gregory Sandow as Rocco was well, embarrassing. Sandow is one of those rare examples of a ham with stage fright. His singing is at once precious and stiff. His main problem is that...
Only seven votes behind Olesen, however, was Daniel J. Clinton...