Word: petitioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the gallery of the House of Commons one afternoon last week, a snap-eyed, tart-tongued spinster in electric blue coat and homemade pink wool beret craned triumphantly forward to watch Oxford M.P. Lawrence Turner step forward with a handsomely curlicued petition. Pointing to two brown paper parcels full...
Nanki-Poo Presley. A sometime contralto in G. & S. amateur productions, Petitioner Alderley was badly shaken four years ago to learn that the British copyright on W. S. Gilbert's lyrics would expire in 1961 (the copyright on Sullivan's music lapsed in 1950). She promptly withdrew to her little Oxford bedsitting room, and for ten hours each day sat scrawling appeals to Gilbert & Sullivan fans the world over, requesting their signatures for the petition she was preparing for Parliament. Seared into her mind were reported visions of Mike Todd's Hot Mikado with Katisha...
Throw Out the Clichés. From all over the world the letters poured in (one addressed simply to "Gilbert & Sullivan Purity Champion, Oxford"). As her fame grew, she took to rapping the prestigious productions of the D'Oyly Carte troupe (a recent D'Oyly Carte Gondoliers, she...
Although many G. & S. buffs feel that the operas can only benefit from the removal of copyright restrictions ("Throw out the petition!" wrote one newsman. "Every last cliché, comma and full stop of it!"), Purist Alderley was more determined than ever to protect W. S. Gilbert from the depredations...
WBBM-TV protested that the equal-time provision did not and should not apply to regular news broadcasts-as the FCC had applied it in the Daly case. During the Chicago campaign, the station admitted, it had used film clips of Candidate Sheehan (e.g., filing his petition for nomination) and...