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South Carolina's Democratic Senator Olin D. Johnston was alarmed by the efforts of Businessman William A. Kimbel to renovate South Carolina's Republican Party. When Kimbel, leader of the South Carolina drive for Eisenhower in 1952, was named U.S. representative to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe last February, Johnston saw a chance to cause some embarrassment. He succeeded. The fact that it was mainly the U.S. that was embarrassed made little difference to Olin Dewitt Johnston...
...Olin Johnston did not give up. Cried he: "I'm standing firm until I can fully investigate Kimbel. I don't know him personally, but I understand he's a carpetbagger . . . I don't guess the world will go to pieces if Mr. Kimbel isn't confirmed in time to serve...
...took unkind notice of Johnston's New and Fair Deal tendencies and his loud support of Adlai Stevenson. Said the editorial: "There was another term of abuse in Reconstruction. It was 'scalawag,' meaning a Southerner who played along with Washington policies then oppressing the South." -Still, Olin Johnston had his way in the end. In Geneva, still unconfirmed in office, William Kimbel was forced to stay in the background while second-level negotiators represented the U.S. on the Commission; the U.S. was not permitted to put its best foot forward in the year's most important...
Composer White, who has retired from violin playing, took time off from composing a symphony and writing his memoirs to send in a piece he wrote a few years ago in memory of his first wife. Said Judge Olin Downes, New York Times critic: "It has a melody, which very few composers of our time can carry through an entire composition. It has what the donor really wanted-tranquillity . . . And by golly it has a tune...
...What was wonderful," said Olin Downes of the New York Times, "was the tenderness, the depth and subtlety of her scene with Wotan and the sweeping drama of the ensuing passage with Siegmund." Wrote the World-Telegram & Sun's Robert Bagar: "The lady did herself-as well as Wagner-proud . . . [And] she sprang about with something approaching the graceful...