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...Isham's mugging is confined to the one simple expression he is capable of making--severe pain--although, to be fair, he has one of the nicest voices in the show. There are painfully few singers in this show; some are barely able to carry a tune let alone handle phrasing. Sonia Dula, as the ingenue Neferbinkist, is the most obvious example of this. Her performance as a sweet young thing depends on a pretty face and a lack of presence. Apparently, almost no one can dance either, to judge from the few steps Kay Stone choreographed. It's difficult...
...innocent traveler or bank customer may suddenly become a hostage. Despite the powerful emotions evoked by the plight of civilian hostages, however, virtually all experts agree that it is better in the long run for a society to refuse to negotiate or to surrender to terrorist demands. Observes Heyward Isham, director of a U.S. Government interagency group set up against terrorism: "A posture of making no concessions to demands may seem coldblooded. But the minute they think they can blackmail you, it leads to an endless chain of demands...
...life's work in a dusty room in the main Sterling Library, cluttered with index cards, legal pads and old pharmacy lamps. He started in 1924 with a doctoral bibliography on Boswell, then went to do research work at the Long Island estate of wealthy Collector Colonel Ralph Isham, who had bought the bulk of the Boswell papers from Boswell's heirs. Yale purchased the papers in 1949, after Isham had fallen on hard times, and Pottle took charge. Boswell's London Journal, full of ribald details of night life along the Thames, was an international bestseller...
...Milwaukee, Woody was only six when his show-business father began pushing him onto home-town stages as a singer-dancer. By the age of 17, he had become a member of the Tom Gerun band. A few years later, he joined the old Isham Jones band, and when Jones dissolved the group in 1936, Woody reorganized it as "the Band That Plays the Blues." By the early 1940s, he was ready to gallop with the Herds. For the past 24 years he has spent only about six weeks a year in the hilltop Hollywood home overlooking Sunset Boulevard that...
...trimmed even further. At the end, the club that had access to the cables included only five men in Foggy Bottom: Rusk and Benjamin Reed, Executive Secretary of the State Department; William Bundy, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and his aide, Hay ward Isham; and Under Secretary of State Nicholas deB. Katzenbach. Not even these precautions were considered entirely reliable when particularly touchy issues were involved. At such times, scrambler telephones and even couriers were used in preference to cables...