Word: sullivanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ironic way. 'At the Soviet embassy on 16th Street that evening, some 50 scientists of 13 nations, members of the International Geophysical Year rocket and satellite conference, were gathered at a cocktail party. After the vodka. Scotch and bourbon started to flow, New York Times Reporter Walter Sullivan got an urgent phone call from his paper, hurried back to whisper in the ear of a U.S. scientist. A moment later Physicist Lloyd Berkner rapped on the hors d'oeuvre table until the hubbub quieted. "I wish to make an announcement," he said. "I am informed...
...Fran Allison, Jerry Colonna, Stubby Kaye, Savoyard Martyn Green, and as the wooden hero, Mickey Rooney, 35. Says Scriptwriter Yasha Frank: "It's corny, but corn is the staff of entertainment life." ¶ CBS's The Edsel Show (8 to 9 p.m., E.D.T.) will crowd The Ed Sullivan Show off the air (the third time in three years) to present Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, Louis Armstrong in a $400,000 production choreographed by Eugene Loring-whose dances gave last week's Crescendo, a big CBS variety show, some of its infrequent high moments. ¶ Standard...
...appointments faction, which is found on both the city council and the school committee, is made up of names infamous in the minds of Harvard men. Belonging to it are such men as A1 Vellucci, whose schemes for running a highway through Harvard are well known; Mayor Sullivan, who used to give anti-Harvard speeches outside Harvard dormitories; and James Fitzgerald, who made several slurs on Harvard during school committee meetings last year. In the minds of these men, the outcry against the appointments last year was organized by the Cambridge Civic Association, a good-government seeking organization...
...endorsees to keep to their platform pledges. CCA-endorsed city council members have squabbled with each other since they were elected, and were thus unable to put solid weight behind a good candidate for mayor when this council organized itself in 1955. The result of this was Mayor Sullivan, and, indirectly the appointments issue which CCA is now fighting. Even on the school committee, CCA-endorsed Anthony Galluccio bolted from his platform pledges and sided with the "independents" most of the time...
...Williams smashed his 38th home run tonight as Boston defeated Washington, 2-1, behind the five-hit pitching of Frank Sullivan, who won his 14th decision...