Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Second Ballot. The second ballot began. This was when favorite sons would drop out and the real business of voting would begin. Taft got 50 of the 56 Illinois votes which had gone to Favorite Son Green. Dewey got 24 of the 35 New Jersey votes which had gone to Driscoll. Most of Dewey's gain was in dribs & drabs-a vote here, a vote there, demonstrating the value of the Dewey camp's attention to details...
...decided that a ballerina has too little future; she'd rather become a stage actress. Says she: "It's so awful to become a ballet dancer who is past her prime and have the audiences make allowances for you. I'd rather leave ballet before I begin to drop...
...James than with the eccentric Bohemians of the art world. He resisted the Pre-Raphaelites and "Ruskin, don't you know . . . silly old thing." He ignored the principles of art for art's sake, detested Gauguin and Van Gogh. His advice to one of his own disciples: "Begin with Franz Hals, copy and study Franz Hals, after that go to Madrid and copy Velasquez...
...virus of freedom had been so rife in Czechoslovakia that the country's new masters hardly knew where to begin to attack the endemic disease. But last week they were making a start, on some obvious fronts...
...General U.S. release will begin in Boston in August...