Word: politician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...does every Russian want to be an engineer while every American boy wants to be a lawyer, a politician or an advertising man? How many engineers in the U.S. own Cadillacs and have summer homes on Long Island? Damned few. Why burn the midnight oil learning trigonometry ? We should make the engineer the hero of a few films-then he might become fashionable...
Many an Alabama newsman and politician was startled at the vote-getting power of Attorney General John Patterson, 36, running for Governor in the primary three weeks ago. His 34,000 plurality in a field of 14, segregationists all. made him odds-on favorite to win the June 3 runoff for Democratic nomination, which means election. Last week one powerful reason came to light: Patterson is the candidate of the Ku Klux Klan. now making its boldest bid for public power and approval since the corn-pone days...
...Supreme Soviet, he is anything but a dull-minded party hack. As a top member of the Soviet elite, he is friendly and debonair, with a squire's taste for boating and woodland walks, and an amateur's cultivated devotion to the theater. He also has a politician's sense of expediency...
...darkness of NBC's vast Brooklyn sound stage one long, tense afternoon last week. Around him rolled the final rehearsals of Kraft Theater's Part 2 of All the King's Men, Novelist Robert Penn Warren's case history of a Huey Longish red-neck politician's rise and fall. Skidding between 14 sets under the glaring lights, fretting actors stumbled over camera cables. Before banks of baffling screens and switches in the darkened control room hunched wild-haired Director Sydney Lumet ("Places, dears. From the top, daddy-O, and punch it like there...
Onstage at Manhattan's Cort Theater, greying, broad-jawed Actor Ralph Bellamy, 53, brilliantly plays the strong-minded young Politician Franklin D. Roosevelt in Dore Schary's Sunrise at Campobello. Offstage, for the past six years Actor Bellamy has performed an even tougher role: two-term president of the 10,000-member Actors' Equity, A.F.L.-C.I.O...