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Other signatures on the telegram were these of Senator Glen Taylor, Leonard Bernstein '89, Olin Downes, and Louis Adamic...
...heart bleeds for poor Senatah [Olin] Johnston [TIME, March 1]. It's a cryin' shame that the poor man had to miss $100 worth of capon and champagne just because his poor Tie wife was too good to be seen in the same room with a "Nigra...
...Brazen Scheme." This first shot fired, Democratic politicians manned the ramparts all over Dixie. South Carolina's Senator Burnet R. Maybank said that his state would follow Virginia's lead. His colleague, Senator Olin Johnston, proposed that the Democrats draft Secretary of State George Marshall. Arkansas' Senator John McClellan came out for Harry Byrd. Even at the price of defeat, Georgia's Senator Walter George looked forward to a party shakeup after the election, with Southerners taking a stronger grip...
...Mayflower, there was one empty table. Although South Carolina's Senator Olin Johnston, a coon-shouting white-supremacy man, had bought ten tickets, he and his guests stayed away, he said, because his wife feared that she might have to sit next to a "Nigra." (There were three Negroes at the dinner; they sat at one table-in the rear.) Senator Johnston sent an emissary to make sure that nobody else sat at his table. He ate dinner at home, helped his wife dish up the vittles, and called in photographers to record the touching scene...
...appreciative words seemed quite adequate to the task. But the New York Times's Critic' Olin Downes tried. Toscanini's radio performance of Otello, he wrote,'was "a performance literally unsurpassable, or indeed to be equaled in the hearing of this generation. . . . Mr. Toscanini achieved a reading of this great score which represented the summit of his own interpretive powers...