Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Independence, Bess Truman, like millions of other U.S. women, faced a servant problem. Vietta Garr, Negro cook who had worked 16 years for the Trumans, is now back of the counter in a Kansas City drugstore. Surveying her array of mechanical aids to soda-jerking, Vietta confessed that she is dubious about returning to what will be the summer White House: "I'm sort of on the outs with the cooking. I'm fountain manager now, and you don't give up that kind of a job without thinking it over. I think an awful...
Already there are signs of Nazi underground activity. Salzburg streets throng with a motley array of hikers in lederhosen and rucksacks, sunburned Wehrmachters still wearing parts of uniforms, soldiers in Hungarian, Czech, Yugoslav, Italian and other uniforms with doubtful political loyalties-a mélange which has made good hunting for the Army's Counterintelligence Corps. To deal with such a situation requires both a firm, coherent policy and a well-directed administration. So far we have lacked both...
Agnes DeMille has, however, put on a spectacular array of terpsichorean wizardry ranging from a classical rendition of a hornpipe to an example of modern dancing which is beyond doubt one of the best seen this season. Again the "Oklahoma" touch appears in Anabelle Lyon, who is a copy of Joan McCracken...
...gets racing vitality from the orchestra. Catherine Littlefield has met the choreography assignment with dancing that whips merrily along at a tingling clip. Raoul Pene DuBois prepared dazzling costumes, Jo Mielziner splendiferous settings, and to top it all off, the staging was handled by John Murray Anderson. In an array of leading names such as this, one is justified in expecting something highly professional...
...Ornately framed pictures of Betsy Ross and "The Stag at Bay," plus a standard array of wood-bound "Our Baby" scrapbooks, snowfall paperweights, "Million Bubble Baths" (six fragrances...