Word: richardson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ROBERT J. RICHARDSON...
...Wanted. The Amazon's new awakening is beset with old problems. Tennessean Ronald Richardson, now 46, who after World War II duty in Belém stayed on to set up a lumber mill outside the town, knows them well; jungle vines are spreading over the mill and pigs root through his crumbling office. "It's here," he says. "No doubt about it-all the riches on earth. I don't know how to get it out, but dammit"-he pounded his desk so hard the Scotch bottle jumped-"it's here! We need men, real...
...with the newspaper hymnsinging. Marya Mannes of the Reporter complained about Hingle's naturalistic acting in the title role--"This is a classic role that demands a classic actor with the kind of diction only the classicists of the theatre possess"--and would have preferred to see "Olivier or Richardson" in "MacLeish's exalted poem"; but she had no reservations about the play itself--"I know of no other American poet who could write this legend in such noble and flexible language or maintain, as he does much of the time, its purity and its dimensions." Newsweek concluded its account...
Philadelphia. Yaleman Richardson Dilworth, 61, World War I combat marine who helped run Republican corruption out of Philadelphia back in 1947 and started prodding a dying city back to life, won his second Democratic term by knocking off the most tireless Republican hopeful of the day: Harold Stassen. Dilworth, who had only to rest on his achievements (and the backing of all three Philadelphia newspapers), did not have to take out after Stassen; Harold, 52, did it all by himself. A disappointed presidential and gubernatorial contender in Pennsylvania, the onetime Minnesota boy-wonder Governor could not find a legitimate issue...
...Boston, John E. Powers, president of the state Senate, is favored to defeat his rival, John F. Collins, for the mayoralty Incumbent Democrat Richardson Dilworth, Mayor of Philadelphia, is expected to soundly defeated Harold E. Stassen, who is trying a political comeback...