Word: morrison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make the defeat more galling, Louisiana picked two of Long's bitterest enemies to fight it out in the runoff. High man of the eleven candidates scrambling for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination: de-Lesseps Story Morrison, 47, veteran reform Mayor of New Orleans (four four-year terms), clobbered by Ole Earl in the 1956 gubernatorial primary, and running an uphill race against rural Louisiana's traditional prejudice against 1) a big-city boy and 2) a Roman Catholic. Some 63,000 votes behind Morrison came ex-Governor (1944-48) Jimmie Davis, sometime songwriting guitarist (You Are My Sunshine...
...Society." To support their hunches. Drake and other radio astronomers cite a closely reasoned paper published this fall by Cornell Physicists Philip Morrison and Giuseppe Cocconi, who postulate an advanced society not far away (as space distances go) that has long been "expecting the development of science near the sun." Wrote Morrison and Cocconi : "We shall assume that long ago they established a channel of communication that would one day become known to us, and that they look forward patiently to the answering signals from the sun which would make known to them that a new society has entered...
...Morrison-Cocconi refuse to concede that their speculations belong to science fiction. "We submit, rather . . . that the presence of interstellar signals is entirely consistent with all we now know, and that if signals are present, the means of detecting them is now at hand . . . We therefore feel that a discriminating search for signals deserves a considerable effort. The probability of success is hard to estimate; but if we never search, the chance of success is zero...
...best play of this or many seasons ... reaches heights of poetry and performance seldom attempted in the recent history of the American stage," cried John MacLain in the Journal American. Hobe Morrison in Variety spoke of "this exalted drama," John Chapman of the Daily News thought it "a magnificent production of a truly splendid play," Richard Watts of the Post called it "a fine drama" with "stunning performances" and Walter Kerr of the Herald Tribune felt he stood before "a sober and handsome monument" that was "enormously impressive" and, of course, "sheer theatre." Exclaimed John Mason Brown, Critic Emeritus...
Brown and Yale should share the favorite's role in the 10-team Heptagonals. The Bruins have Bob Lowe, probably the best distance runner in the East, and a strong supporting cast led by Bill McArdle. Yale has staggering depth-Jon Blake, Tommy Carroll, John Morrison, and Tom Cathcart are all excellent competition...