Word: au
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Calypso-like musings of Edith Efron, U.S.-born wife of a Port au Prince businessman, as reported in the Haiti...
...four soloists a polite round. When the old (77) conductor started to trudge offstage, he was recalled for ten minutes of shrieking and hysterical cheers. Papa Monteux finally waved them into quiet, then found that all he could say was: "Thank you ... I will not say goodbye, but au revoir...
...solemn speeches or long faces. His 96 musicians gave him a party at which the eleven women of the orchestra put on a vivacious cancan. Cracked Monteux, "It took me 17 years to see what pretty legs they have." With enormous gusto, he knifed into a huge cake lettered "Au revoir, cher Maître." And he set straight one matter that has intrigued San Franciscans for years: "I make you a declaration. My hair, it is not dyed...
...only event where the Crimson allowed a Lion to finish first, Dick Au water (third from bottom above) showed fine back-stroke form to win the 150-yard individual medley in 1:39.8. Mary Sandler and Charlie Egan finished second and third for the Crimson...
...word given by the briefing officer, the U.N. subcommitteemen and their Communist opposite numbers had almost agreed on item 2 of the agenda, the ceasefire line.* There only remained to be settled, it seemed, the relatively minor question of who, if anybody, would hold Kaesong. What, then, was aU the scuffling about in the conference tent? At week's end Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy, chief of the U.N. truce delegation, boarded the press train parked at Munsan and explained to the puzzled newsmen, and suddenly everything was as clear...