Word: admirerers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last January, when Edinburgh's new Director Robert Ponsonby invited the After Dinner group to come, the company scoffed. It would cost a cool $20,000, even cutting corners, they estimated, and who had that kind of money for small-scale, modern opera? Then a fat check arrived from...
Married. Emanuel ("Manny") Shinwell, 71, British Socialist Minister of Defense (1950-51), self-educated ("It's a great handicap") veteran Laborite; and Dinah Meyer, 54, London bank secretary and staunch admirer of Tory Sir Winston Churchill; he for the second time, she for the first; in London.
Grass Roots. At home in Independence, Harry Truman rests up from his political exercises. The iron fence around the big white house with the gingerbread eaveswork was originally put up by Secret Service men as a security measure; it has been kept to hold out the tourists who flock around...
McDonald has small regard for the auto workers' Walter Reuther, once described him privately as "that redheaded, socialistic s.o.b." But he has become a good friend and admirer of George Meany, president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. He has no designs on Meany's job, wants only to run...
What caused Courbet as much trouble as his subject matter (a village funeral, peasant stone breakers, farm women winnowing wheat) was his own self-centered swagger and robust peasant's appetite. One of his favorite painting subjects was himself (see cut). He accepted an admirer's praise by...