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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skillfully did Lyndon Johnson handle his fight for his own version of Rule XXII that the final 72-22 vote left only the extreme diehards of both the liberal and Southern sides in opposition. Thus such liberals as New York Republican Jacob Javits arid Illinois Democrat Paul Douglas found themselves isolated with such bitter-end Southerners as South Carolina's Strom Thurmond and Mississippi's James Eastland...
...release of two Monroe Negro boys from the state reform school. The boys, David Simpson, 8, and James Thompson, 10, were locked up on Oct. 29 after a white mother complained that the older boy had forced her seven-year-old daughter to kiss him. The boys' version of the story: they were playing down in a culvert with several other white boys and girls; there, two of the girls sat on the laps of white boys, and a third sat on Thompson's lap and kissed him. The Negro boys, who had already been in minor scrapes...
Girl in a Hole, the musical version of Alice in Wonderland, is a ring-tailed roarer, a rollicking, ringing, rabble-rousing, riotous revel...
...role of Alice, the producers have cast Margery Glench--a bold step, since she is a grandmother, and known to be at least seventy-six. But she has triumphantly made good their gamble. Her forthcoming movie version of Lolita, to be called I Was a Teenage Nymphet, will be eagerly awaited. For Miss Glench is charming. Miss Glench is beautiful. Miss Glench is neatsie-poo. She sings like a nightingale, and she looks like one too, with the neatest little set of tailfeathers you could ever hope to see. Miss Glench, will you live in sin with...
...Must Die (French). A powerful Jules (Riftft) Dassin version of The Greek Passion, Novelist Nikos Kazantzakis' attempt to show how the life of Christ coincides with the lives of all men in a condition of continuous Calvary...