Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then Russell assigned the sectors-North Carolina's genial Sam Ervin, who had sat on the subcommittee hearings on the legislation, would scout the overall area; Arkansas' Bill Fulbright (the darling of Northern literary liberals) and Alabama's John Sparkman, another man of liberal repute and Adlai Stevenson's running mate in 1952, would concentrate on jury trial; Alabama's Lister Hill, a liberal in good standing with labor, would ring the alarm bells in the ranks of organized labor, which is historically opposed to the use of Federal Court injunctions in strike situations; Arkansas...
...knit structure of the play is bound into a tightly cohesive knot, creating a final fluidity. Leads and choruses maintain the spritely and varying rhythms of American life throughout. The same persons flying-shuttled in and out of different roles, weaving the loom of America. Robert Dargie as Uncle Sam at the piano punctuates the performance with robust renditions of American songs, while guitars, banjos, and violins mute the strains of the nation's soul. Scenery and props were appropriately simple, and agilely handled. The floor was musicarnival and the lighting was virtuoso, creating a variety of moods. Special credit...
...manner of speaking. From Las Vegas came a $200-a-week nightclub offer; a Hollywood club wanted Mary Leona, and so did Movie Producer "Jungle Sam'' Katzman. Television's Dave Garroway and The $64,000 Question put in their bids. But cagey Ed Sullivan, who likes to be fastest with the most, did it again. Mary Leona Gage Ennis signed up for the Sullivan program...
...state penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio, where he is serving a life sentence for bludgeoning his wife to death three years ago, 35-year-old Dr. Sam Sheppard was told that a 23-year-old convict and drug addict named Donald Wedler had confessed to the crime in Florida, and that a lie detector test indicated he was telling the truth. Unemotional at the news-24 other persons have signed similar "confessions"-Dr. Sam nevertheless agreed for the first time since the slaying to take a lie detector test himself. Shown a picture of Wedler, he said he had a "vague...
...that the whole long struggle would have struck the cowboy artist as a lot of tomfoolery. As to how Charlie would have felt if he had known he was going to make his last stand cooped up in the company of 42 heroes of other states, e.g., Massachusetts' Sam Adams, Mississippi's Jefferson Davis, Texas' Sam Houston and Pennsylvania's Robert Fulton.* not even the cussingest barkeep west of Helena could...