Word: admirerers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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One morning a delegation of twelve top Republicans from Ohio came to call at the White House. As is usual these days, they came bearing a resolution praising the President's leadership and urging him to run again. Ike thanked the Ohioans and then showed them some of his...
Personal Life: Youngest of six children, Heinrich von Brentano devoted many years of his life to the care of his widowed mother; a confirmed bachelor whose hobbies are collecting silver and old furniture for his apartments in Darmstadt and Bonn, he is a connoisseur of wines and highbrow conversation, an...
On the home stretch of her Far Eastern tour in behalf of overseas blind, Helen Keller, an indomitable 74, arrived in Burma, was promptly introduced to Premier U Nu. She explored his face with her sensitive hands, pronounced him "a philosopher and a poet." Later, meeting reporters in Rangoon, Helen...
* A situation Picasso will soon change. Two weeks ago he handed back his gingerbread Riviera house in 'Vallauris to his former wife, Franchise Gillot, and for 12 million francs bought a sunny, 13-room villa, La null overlooking Cannes, six miles from Communist Leader Maurice Thorez. Said Soviet-Admirer...
*Also an admirer of the serpentine wall was another President, Thomas Jefferson. After seeing "ribbon walls" in England, Jefferson reproduced them at the University of Virginia because they were 1) esthetically pleasing, and 2) structurally stronger than straight walls of the same width.