Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that U.S. weapons and money might be dissipated in driblets from Greenland to Greece. There was a nagging fear that ECA might help keep Europe convalescent but never put it back on its feet. There was also a petulant feeling that Europe should get off its hunkers. Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch seemed to share this mood. Back from a quick trip to Europe, he was asked whether Europe might help itself more if the U.S. helped it less. "There's a heap of sense in that," he said...
...George Bernard Shaw, pixie, playwright and pundit, turned 93, ate some birthday cake and let go a thought or two on politics ("Stalin [is] the mainstay of peace in Europe") and his own advanced years ("Thank God, I've reached my second childhood"). London's Liberal News Chronicle concurred only in the latter view. "[Shaw]," it wrote, "is now the grand old man of English letters but not, alas ... of English politics. In that field he has said wittily a greater number of silly things than any intelligent man is entitled to say in ... a lifetime...
Unlike the ferocious Kong, Gorilla Joe Young is as lovable as a Saint Bernard. He worships his jungle mistress (Terry Moore) and obeys her every word. It is only when he becomes the target of a safari, headed by Robert Armstrong, that he begins to throw his weight around. Captured by Armstrong's cowboys, who look like Lilliputian daredevils mounted on pygmy horses, Joe is bundled off to Hollywood as a nightclub attraction...
...gesture, kicked in $100 for the defense of an old enemy: German Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Mannstein. The money, along with other contributions, will be used to hire a British lawyer for Mannstein at his war crimes trial Aug. 9. Meanwhile, Churchill spent a few quiet days entertaining Bernard Baruch, an old crony and his recent host...
Muriel Kaplan dared not let the baby out of her sight. She all but gave up her law practice. She and her husband Bernard (once a pro football player, now in a television business) were rooted to their home in New Rochelle, N.Y. Three times one of them sat up all night holding Sandy upright-she seemed to breathe easier that way. Twice she had to be rushed to hospitals and given oxygen. The family physician, Dr. Edwin Raymond, often gave Sandy artificial respiration...