Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Daily News Gossip Columnist Ed Sullivan discovered that a pro-Communist weekly, National Guardian (circ. 47,000), had bought a block of 300 seats for the April 8 performance of Wonderful Town, starring Rosalind Russell. The magazine planned to resell the tickets in a fund-raising campaign. Wrote Sullivan: "I'm quite sure, Rosalind, that you'll step out of this . . . job for the Kremlin." Producer Robert Fryer canceled the April 8 performance, told ticket holders they would get their money back...
...days later, State Insurance Commissioner Frank Sullivan provided the answer. Wes Roberts, who had represented the A.O.U.W. in the transaction, got the $11,000 as his fee. Reporters and legislators promptly raised some eyebrows and some questions. If Roberts had promoted the sale of the building, which had to be paid for by the legislature, wasn't he lobbying? He hadn't registered, as lobbyists must under Kansas law. Then an even more basic question arose. There was a 1927 letter signed by the state business manager indicating that the state expected to get the building for nothing...
Instrument players will find a haven in the commodious House Music Room, or in the sometimes-active Leverett House Dance Band. Singers can join the House Glee Club or Octet, or can attempt more ambitions trials with the Leverett House Music Society, recent producer of Gilbert and Sullivan's "Ruddigore" and "The Sorcerer...
Activity-wise, the House's main feature is the Winthrop House Music Society which annually stages a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta. Also featured are the six House dinners for all undergraduates, tutorial staff and faculty associates, after which a guest speaker holds forth in the common room...
This week Pilot Sullivan testified that he didn't know what happened, that the plane failed to respond to the controls...