Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then he gave his version of the Stevenson visit. No politics had been discussed, said Johnson, and as far as he was concerned none were going to be. The visit had absolutely no relationship to any political situation arising from Eisenhower's illness. As a heart-attack victim himself, Johnson said, he felt a certain kinship toward Ike; besides, he considered the President a close personal friend. As for exerting his influence in the Senate on behalf of any candidate, Johnson said: "I can't turn the Senate into a nominating convention ... I wouldn't make precinct...
...some spread across two pages or running necklace-fashion around text. There were wider margins, gaps of white space, splashier illustrations, and a Collier's-like short-short story. As body type for its stories and articles, the Satevepost replaced its familiar Century Schoolbook type with a lighter version of an old-fashioned design by John Baskerville, great and good friend of Satevepost Patron Saint Benjamin Franklin...
...Department of Athletics' version of co-education will begin this Monday on Watson Rink with the start of formal figure skating lessons open to Radcliffe and Harvard undergraduates, it was announced yesterday...
Firebird was no novelty to the U.S. The Col. de Basil company toured it in the '40s, and George Balanchine's New York City Ballet has done a shortened version -carefully avoiding such delicacies as the soul-in-the-egg. The Sadler's Wells version was faithful to the original choreography of 1910. In fact, it captured the old spirit so well that the once-daring Stravinsky music began to sound just like Mussorgsky with wrong notes...
Producer's Showcase offered up his tender Our Town in a musical version that preserved much of the quality of the original, only to drown its author's most eloquent asides in a droning of catchpenny lyrics by Tin Pan Alley's Sammy Cahn...