Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the question period following his speech, Johnson criticized some Northern papers for viewing Southerners as "Tobacco Row types," while ignoring local problems such as segregated housing. According to Johnson, these newspapers attack the South in an effort to "show they are moral...
Rump Session. At the White House somebody goofed twice in a row on forgetting to invite the Democrats' House Majority Leader John McCormack to two presidential briefings held for congressional leaders. House Minority Leader Charlie Halleck put a bug in the President's ear. Promptly, Ike invited McCormack for a full hour's presidential question-and-answer session...
...pupils like Rosetta, who send in their completed lessons by mail. Rosetta resolutely kept at her lessons, switching to a battery radio and kerosene lamp when the family's moody generator failed, and her teachers soon came to know her as well as if she had a front-row desk in their classrooms. She got a prize for written composition at eleven, and last year she graduated from high school with an armful of honors-one of the few New Zealanders to make it all the way through radio school, and the first of the group to be accepted...
...then, would-be Princetonian Knopf went to college (Union) and became vice president (sales) of the firm in which his father is board chairman and his mother president. But he still knows some rich people, and he still wants to make it on his own. Last week Publishers' Row was startled by the news that a major new publishing firm was being founded by Pat Knopf and two big bookmen-Hiram Haydn, 51, for the past three years editor in chief of Random House, and Simon Michael Bessie, 43, one of the top editors of Harper...
...plan, drawn up last year by a number of fourth year graduate students under the direction of Jose Luis Sert, Dean of the Graduate School of Design, calls for replacing the current slum area with a mixture of row houses, walk-up and high-rise apartment buildings...