Word: phil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was a placid gathering. The biggest issue that might have thrown it into turmoil was deferred when 65-year-old Phil Murray, recovered from an almost fatal illness, agreed to carry on as C.I.O. president. He was unanimously re-elected for his twelfth term. Nominating Murray, bearded Jacob S. Potofsky, president of the Clothing Workers, called him "not only a labor leader but a leader of mankind." To take some of the load off Murray, Organization Director Allan Haywood was named to the new position of executive vice president...
Heading the lineup is Bishop, who as Commodore is automatically team captain. After Bishop comes Tom Chinlund, the Vice-Commodore, then: Hoppin, Tim Brown, Phil Buckner, Tom Carroll, Butch Horner, Dean Howells, Jimmy Nathanson, John Newhall, and George Robertson...
Notables on hand for the colorful contest included Athletic Director Thomas D. Bolles, Dean Bender, former football captain Phil Isenberg, and Coach Lloyd Jordan. At halftime, CRIMSON President William M. Simmons presented a trophy to former Athletic Director William J. Bingham...
...engaging, bespectacled Phil (High Button Shoes) Silvers, who works like a truck horse at the speed of a race horse and with the timing of a steeplechaser. As TV's headlining, scene-hogging, credit-grabbing Jerry Biffle, the sort of megalomaniac who would throw himself in the path of a car if the headlights seemed bright enough, he bears a distinct but not very damaging resemblance to Milton Berle...
...discreetly commonplace; its love story classically dull. And no doubt, limelight-hogging Jerry Biffle saw to it that the sets, the costumes, the chorines should have no distracting charms. Top Banana is a musicomedy that owes its liveliness to TV, its laughs to burlesque, its success to indefatigable Phil Silvers...