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...there in a great four-poster bed. She was Frida Kahlo, invalid wife of Muralist Diego Rivera and Mexico's best woman painter (TIME, Nov. 14, 1938). For her first public show in Mexico, 200 friends, fellow artists and critics had turned out to sing, sip Scotch, and applaud her delicate surrealistic pictures...
...Catholic, I wish to applaud Ike's choice of Clare Boothe Luce for the very important post...
...businessmen constantly applaud competition and private enterprise, and damn socialism and planned economies. We accuse our foreign neighbors of lacking the kind of spirit which has made American industry great. We implore them to follow our example and get off our backs. So I just say, let's practice what we preach, where it will do us and our allies some real good. Let's give our friends a fair crack at the American market . . . I believe we ought to get rid of the 10% tariff on automobiles* at once...
...alone as the only testament of his 72nd year. After finishing the quartet (in April), he wrote Concerto Grosso No. 2 for Strings and String Quartet (August) a Sinfonia Breve (December) and a brief In Memoriam (also December). At week's end, with an energy that Churchill might applaud, he was off to Rome to hear a revival of his 1910 opera, Macbeth...
Crosby is quick to applaud exceptions in his general picture of electronic idiocy, whether he finds them in scripts for "Duffy's Tavern" or in televised opera. In "Out of the Blue," however, there isn't much applause-- probably because Crosby's catcalls are much more enjoyable...