Word: paul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours, the back-to-workers whooped and hollered at predictably anti-Administration speeches from such Democrats as Texas' Senator Lyndon Johnson (who announced his plan for a legislative-executive commission on unemployment to report in 60 days) and Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas (President Eisenhower, "the kindly Kansan, has unwittingly become the captive of hard-faced men"). The U.A.W.'s Reuther, in a high-pitched, rhythmic singsong? pulled out all the stops, deriding Eisenhower for playing golf and quail hunting in Georgia, and conjuring up the memory of the good old days of World War II, when everybody...
Fighting & Fears. All sorts of influences were now at work on the old man. His son Paul, a Roman Catholic priest, dared advise him that he must not try to stay in the front line too long. His old Cologne friend, Banker Robert Pferdmenges, gently explained how in big business a corporation president, by becoming board chairman, sloughs off the daily burden while overseeing the continuity of policy. Adenauer himself badly wanted a strong presidential candidate to head off the "catastrophic" possibility that a Socialist (the popular Carlo Schmid) might win the office. And Adenauer was also swayed by fears...
...four-week Italian vacation, Adenauer went to see outgoing President Theodor Heuss, 75, who has served the constitutional limit of two five-year terms. For two hours the two elders talked about the role of the presidency. That night at home, Adenauer talked heart to heart with his son Paul until midnight. Next morning he complained that he had hardly slept-but he had made his decision...
Almost 30 years after he last boomed through the title role of Othello in England, Actor Paul Robeson, 61, was the tormented Moor again at the Shakespeare Memorial Theater, opening the 100th season of the mecca in Stratford-on-Avon. Free to roam since his eight-year U.S. passport ban was lifted last June, Fellow Traveler Robeson got an ovation from the audience, almost unanimous huzzahs from the critics, but his Desdemona, blonde British Actress Mary Ure, was rapped for her lack of pathos...
Born. To Joanne Woodward, 29, Hollywood's 1957 Oscar-winning "best actress" (Three Faces of Eve), and Paul Newman, 34, actor of stage (Sweet Bird of Youth) and screen (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof): their first child, a daughter (he has three children by an earlier marriage) ; in Manhattan. Name: Elinor Theresa...