Word: pardons
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...again, Bostonians should be spelling "Theater" the British way, with a "re." The brightest local season in many years seems to be well on the way, with British imports especially promising. Plays already opened are "Season in the Sun," "Black Chiffon," and "The Curious Savage"; in the musical field, "Pardon Our French" and "Call Me Madam." Incredible though it may appear, every one of these five shows has hit possibilities. They are all in excellent condition for a Boston tryout, and they will improve even more before opening in New York...
...press chronicles you as plodding about the country seeking someone to whom you can give a 'no-strike pledge.' I am sure that you will pardon me when I suggest that the Mineworkers are not yet ready for you to sell them down the river. Restrict your pledges to your own outfit. We do our own no-striking...
...Australia, Publisher William Pardon Burns of the Communist Sydney Tribune was sentenced to nine months in jail for sedition. The Tribune had urged Australian seamen to boycott cargoes for Korea...
...that he had learned Irene from his Uncle Terrell, just before he was sent to the penitentiary in Texas for murder in 1918. Adding verses as they came to him, Lead Belly made Irene a prison favorite. Five years after he got out of the Texas jail on a pardon, he bounced into Louisiana's state prison farm for assault with intent to kill, and sweet Irene went right along with...
...when Library of Congress Folklorist John Lomax recorded Lead Belly's famed pardon petition,† he put Irene on the other side. Music-loving Governor 0. K. Allen is said to have pardoned the old reprobate as much for Irene as anything. Until Lead Belly died in Manhattan last year, he sang Irene as his theme song...