Word: michelson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" was performed last. The parts of the young lovers, Emily and George, were taken by Rence Michelson '53 and Burns. England played the Stage Manager and Lois Abrams of BU and Louise Luechm '53 acted minor roles...
...remained to Franklin D. Roosevelt to bring ghostwriting into prominence by employing such eminent men as Judge Samuel Rosenman, Playwright Robert Sherwood, Brain Truster Raymond Moley and Poet Archibald MacLeish. Dean of them all, and perhaps the shrewdest, was the late Charley Michelson, longtime pressagent for the Democratic Party, whose typewriter supplied uncounted Democratic bigwigs with taunts that made a whole generation of Republicans miserable...
...behind President Roosevelt's big desk, a small, stooped man with bright, hooded eyes in a seamed face. Behind the hornrimmed glasses he looked bored and glum. He seldom said a word. He didn't have to. As the Democrats' ghostwriter and hatchet man, Charley Michelson got the party's biggest guns...
...private vocabulary, Charley never seemed to work. He often needed a shave, spent much time in the Press Club playing chess and dominoes with his newspaper cronies. He held no man in awe. Once Franklin Roosevelt greeted reporters with the remark that there was no news "except that Charley Michelson needs a haircut." Snapped Michelson: "Somebody's got to economize around here." Once he told Jim Farley: "Jim, you're the most honest man alive. You wouldn't steal anything-except an election...
...celebrate the overwhelming 1936 victory, which Farley had predicted, the Democratic National Committee staged a testimonial dinner for him. Publicity Chief Charles Michelson wanted to reproduce on the dinner program a letter from Roosevelt thanking Farley for his services. Wrote Farley: "I told him [Michelson] I hadn't received such a letter since 1930. Charley growled that, knowing Roosevelt, he wasn't surprised to hear it, but he decided to demand a predated letter of gratitude. This turned up a few days later, and Charley brought it in with a wry smile. It read...