Word: robert
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Joseph D. Ward, Secretary of State, received the formal party nomination at the annual convention, but six others challenged him in the primary Lieutenant Governor Robert Murphy, who had expected to be named, accordingly entered the race. Endicott "Chub" Peabody, an All-American before his graduation from Harvard in 1942, then appealed for the liberal Democratic vote, while State Treasurer John F. Kennedy relied on his name for nomination. An able City Councillor from Boston, Gabriel Piemonte, tried for the Italian and local vote, with oposition by Roxbury politician Alfred Magaletta. The final candidate, Francis J. Kelley, plastered MTA walls...
...prices from 10% to more than 15% on popular sizes. American Motors was the only U.S. automaker to raise its 1961-model prices-by $10 to $60-and the Frigidaire division of General Motors announced last week that it is "holding the price line" on 1961-model appliances. Even Robert Burns took big ads to boast price cuts in its Panatela cigars from...
...resemblance to legitimate novels. Ordinarily it is possible to judge each sort according to its own standards: Do broadswords and bustlines glitter sufficiently in the one, are reality's fore and backside faithfully drawn in the other? But now and then a writer with the skill of a Robert Graves succeeds in mixing the two styles. Author Cordell once again attempts the trick with some fairly entertaining results, but he is no Graves...
...Dark at the Top of the Stairs. William Inge's careful insights into the problems of an Oklahoma harness salesman and his troubled family are well illuminated in the screen version, with Robert Preston setting the acting pace though occasionally running ahead of Inge's harness...
...Cambridge Neighborhood Theater will present a play by one of its members as a part of the Workshop program the weekend of November 4. One week later Robert H. Chapman, associate professor of English, will supervise the production of Albee's The Sandbox...