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...public. Defeated that fall by politically unknown John Marshall Butler, who was actively backed by McCarthy in a gutter campaign featuring a phony composite photograph showing Tydings in apparently friendly conversation with Communist Earl Browder, Tydings won nomination to the Senate in 1956 but withdrew from his last political scrap because of ill health...
Wagner first exercised his new political muscle last week in the scrap over a replacement for Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack. De Sapio seemed to have that election in his pocket. But when Wagner began to remind reluctant councilmen of the patronage at his command, he had surprisingly little trouble. Wagner's choice, Judge Edward Richard Dudley, onetime Ambassador to Liberia (the U.S.'s first Negro ambassador), won the showdown vote in the council...
Neither the Thompson boys nor their father John, 33, were particularly concerned with the scrap over school integration. Alabama-reared John Thompson had moved his family of seven into the McDonogh 19 school district after the boycott began, joined his neighbors in sending his boys on the long bus ride to the lily-white schools of St. Bernard Parish. Then Thompson noticed that Greg was reading from the same primer he had used the year before in Alabama, where "the schools ain't too far ahead." And one rainy day the school bus driver bawled the boys...
...fishermen in a traditional Communist ploy: in exchange for concessions from the Japanese, they were offering to stop doing what they should not have been doing in the first place. In Tokyo, Aleksandr Ishkov, Soviet minister of fisheries, named the Russians' price for halting its harassment -that Japan scrap its security treaty with the U.S. This was a follow-up to a gambit offered by Nikita Khrushchev, who last month told a group of Japanese visiting in Moscow that he would be willing to hand back Habomai and Shikotan (which the Russians grabbed at war's end), except...
...Flotow (1812-83) wrote about a score of operas for the theaters of Paris, but only Martha remained in the repertory. As late as the 1920s it was a smash at the Met, with Caruso periodically igniting the house with the tenor aria "M'appari." The only other scrap of the opera likely to be familiar to modern audiences is The Last Rose of Summer, which Flotow lifted from a book of Irish folk songs, where it was known as The Groves of Blarney. When Berlioz heard Soprano Adelina Patti sing the air, he remarked wryly that "its fragrance...