Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three days," said a wounded French sergeant, "but she soon got hold of herself and started working at all hours of night and day." From scraps of radio-telephone and teleprinter messages from Dienbienphu, a legend was born: in headlines around the free world, Genevieve de Galard became "the angel of Dienbienphu...
Guatemala's Defense Minister José Angel Sánchez was down from Guatemala City to superintend the unloading, and the dock was cleared of idlers. Day after day, on cars of the U.S.-owned International Railways of Central America, the crates rolled up to the capital, 197 miles away. Armed guards rode each car. One night a stick of dynamite exploded without serious damage under an arms train, presumably set by anti-Communist Guatemalan exiles who had come over the Honduras border, 15 miles away. Tracing the fuse, soldiers wound up in a gunfight. One sergeant...
...board chairman of Poetry: a Magazine of Verse, Ellen Borden Stevenson, ex-wife of Adlai Stevenson, functions as deficit sponge and guardian angel to Chicago's spindly poetic colony and to artists in general. So vigorous a patroness is Mrs. Stevenson that no cultural gathering in the city is considered quite legitimate unless she is on hand...
Lehar: Land of Smiles (Elisabeth Schwartzkopf, Nicolai Gedda, Erich Kuntz; Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Otto Ackermann; Angel, 2 LPs). Lehar's famed oriental operetta (1931), which offers such grand old tunes as Yours Is My Heart Alone among its welter of melodies, gets what is probably its most elegant hearing with a first-rate cast and a luxurious recording...
...Dialogues emerges the image of a man as well as the imprint of a mind. Little more than 5 ft. high, frail, bent, kindly Philosopher Whitehead had a bald, domed head framed by wispy white hair that made him look, in the words of one student, "like an angel whose halo had slipped." His bright blue eyes, set in a rosy-cheeked, unwrinkled face, had the candor of a child's. He spoke with a nicely articulated British accent, usually with deliberation, often with enthusiasm, and his mind had the freshness of youth. "Between the ages...