Word: professor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Williams' alliance with the United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther. But against potent Soapy, Johnson proved to be a washout. Last week, by a nearly six-to-one margin, Michigan Democrats picked Williams to run in November against G.O.P. Nominee Paul D. Bagwell, Michigan State University communications professor and a political novice. Odds-on to win: Williams. Nominated by the Democrats to run for the U.S. Senate against Republican Incumbent Charles E. Potter: Williams' popular lieutenant governor, Philip A. Hart...
Kansas' former State Democratic Chairman, Marvin A. ("Mike") Harder, 36, professor of political science at the Municipal University of Wichita, last week lost his own precinct committeeman's seat to Donald E. Anderson, 23. Winner Anderson's oddest qualification: he earned his political science degree last June after racking up a high grade in the political parties course taught by Professor Harder...
...bear-shaped tones with all the Latin he knew: "E pluribus unum, my friends, sine qua non, ne plus ultra, multo in parvo!" Applause resounded for miles; Jackson not only won the election, but also got an honorary LL.D. Or so says Allen Walker Read, associate professor of English at Columbia University, who tucked tongue in cheek and presented choice samples of fractured Latin in an address to the Linguistic Society of America...
...rare thing in those days -he was quickly tapped for great things in the world of left-wing propaganda. He went on his pilgrimage to the poor on commission from the influential Left Book Club, run by a notable socialist triumvirate - Publisher Victor Gollancz, London School of Economics Professor Harold J. Laski and John ( The Coming Struggle for Power) Strachey. When Orwell finished his book, his sponsors found that they were getting more than they bargained...
...second act was the triumph of the evening. The scene marked Eliza's first and half-educated entrance into high society. In this Miss Harris was perfect. Her conversation and accent, a mixture of her own flower-girl experience and the teaching of Professor Higgins, carried the one-sided conversation to a hilarious and colorful climax. She was ably assisted in this by Olive Dunbar as Mrs. Eynsford Hill, and Joyce Ebert as her daughter, whose wonderful indignant facial expression added a great deal of amusement to the overall scene. Cavada Humphrey, as Higgins' mother, played the Victorian matriarch...