Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President set the first of his television speeches on national issues for next week in Oklahoma City, set a high-wattage writing team, headed by Arthur Larson, recently of the U.S. Information Agency, to turning out copy. Title of the first speech: "Science and Security...
...Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, professor of History, stated that "if Killian has the authority he must have for his job, he should be Secretary of Defense." Schlesinger added that "if that were the case, I cannot see what is left for the present Secretary to do, which shows us that we should not have a soap salesman as Secretary of Defense...
...green clown," said Owner Arthur ("Bull") Hancock Jr. of his leggy bay colt Nadir as he got up the final $1,000 of the $2,385 entry fee that gave him the privilege of watching Nadir horse around in the $277,150 Garden State Stakes, richest race in the world. To make the picture complete, Nadir had something of a cutup in the saddle too: rough-riding Willie Hartack, who bounces in the irons like a novice riding for his life. But both clowns kept their minds on their work: Nadir finished an easy two lengths in front...
...Arthur Godfrey, for this reason, became a minor czar of the TV world, because--in the words of one advertising executive--"He can sell 'em anything." The biggest hit song this year is "You'll wonder where the yellow went...
...added its profound effect. Toward the end of that century, Albert Pinkham Ryder remarked that an artist "should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it. What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?" Extending that subjective spirit, Arthur Dove was painting abstractions on a Connecticut farm before the first abstract canvas was done by Wassily Kandinsky in Europe...