Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ages, is still Hungary's most precious treasure. (After World War II it was taken in custody by the U.S. Government.) In 1222, only seven years after the barons of England forced King John to sign their Magna Charta, the freemen of Hungary made their own King Andrew sign a comparable document known as the Golden Bull, the first charter of human rights on the European continent. But Hungary, unlike insular England, was set like a bastion between the conflicting civilizations of East and West, and under the strain of constant warring, the rights guaranteed by the bull...
...fresh off a Van Meter, Iowa farm when he gangled out to begin his major-league pitching career against the St. Louis Cardinals' Gas House Gang. First man up in the exhibition game in Cleveland was a scrappy shortstop named Leo Durocher. Robert William Andrew Feller took a couple of warmup tosses, then reared back and fired. Leo heard two strikes whistle past so fast that he could not see the ball, then dropped his bat and headed for the dugout. "Hey," the umpire called, "you've got a strike left." "You can have it," Durocher replied...
...young realists certainly do. In a forthcoming book (Conversations with Artists, by Selden Rodman) Painters Jack Levine and Andrew Wyeth give professional appraisals. Hopper "does what he sets out to do," Levine says admiringly. "No dreams of the old masters set him off his course . . . Hopper looks inland. He's an American painter all the way." Wyeth goes farther still: "What makes Rembrandt so very great is that his concern for other people and for nature always shows through, giving his paintings a dimension of identification and self-effacement that is almost unique in art. Titian doesn...
...most mornings by 7:30, had eaten breakfast* and was in his small office above Golf Pro Ed Dudley's shop by 8 o'clock. There Ike worked with Secretaries Ann Whitman and Helen Weaver, received Washington reports delivered by his staff secretary, Colonel Andrew Jackson Goodpaster. Only top business got attention: routine matters were put aside until the return to Washington...
...Foundation was set up in 1905 by the late Andrew Carnegie to support the "profession of the teacher and the cause of higher education." During the past 51 years, the Foundation has provided some $67 million in pensions to retired teachers and their widows. In addition the Foundation constantly sponsors studies of educational problems...