Word: alderman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Drama, Comedy. In his first straight dramatic role, TV Comic Jackie Gleason gave a taut and convincing portrait of an unscrupulous politician on Studio One, in a play by Carey Wilbur called Short Cut. Gleason not only looked the part, with his suety face and alderman's stomach, but for most of the play he put aside the comic's tools of obviousness and loudness in order to make his character dramatic and believable...
Alan S. Diamond was chosen vice-chairman and treasurer; Thomas Lombard, publicity chairman; Theodore A. Miles, staging and audition chairman; Michael A. Alderman and Lyle Gattu, co-entertainment chairmen; and Richard A. Herland and Carl S. Sloane, co-refreshment chairmen...
Michael H. Alderman, Alan S. Diamond, Lyle Guttu, Richard A. Herland, Thomas Lumbard, Theodore A. Miles, Carl S. Sloane, and Robert Storey will plan this year's Freshman Smoker, which will be held in March...
Tradition Shattered. Most of Burnet Maybank's ancestors were low-country planters. Senator Maybank's father was a Charleston physician, and Maybank grew up in a stately colonial house in Charleston. After World War I, Maybank became a cotton exporter, then a Charleston alderman and mayor. He shattered the modern tradition that low-country aristocrats could not win the votes of up-country farmers; in 27 years of politics he never lost an election, was elected to the Senate three times, and was unopposed for reelection this year...
Carter Higgins, chairman of the Worces ter Red Cross chapter, said dourly: "We can't condone the National's ineptness in public relations. This has given us a public-relations problem for a long time." A Waco alderman, ex-Mayor Ralph Wolf, put it more bluntly: "The trouble with the Red Cross," he said, "is that they have too many workers . . . who special ize in making people madder than hell...