Word: boxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have given up the positions they then held except Joe McCarthy himself, still in the Senate but now stripped of power and prestige. Stevens' successor as Army Secretary: Wilber Brucker, the Defense Department's general counsel, who early this year laughed in McCarthy's face (see box...
History's verdict on the U.N. is still in the jury box. But Dag Hammarskjold is confident what it will be. "The U.N. is not just a product of do-gooders." he says. "It is harshly real." He once told an interviewer: "The day will come when men will see the U.N. and what it means clearly. Everything will be all right-you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction, and see it as a drawing they made themselves...
...American room was closed for refurbishing, and in a plaster-splashed state of disarray, Molotov got a good look at contemporary American abstractions, the kind of thing condemned in the periodic Soviet blasts at "bourgeois, formalist art." Molotov came to a full halt before a painting called The Flying Box...
Confusion. Here, as recorded by Reporter Salisbury, the tour produced the neatest bit of confusion since Lou Costello asked Bud Abbott, "Who's on first?" The Met's American Gallery Curator Robert B. Hale explained to Molotov's interpreter, Oleg Troyanovsky, that The Flying Box was the work of 27-year-old John Hultberg (TIME, May 2), an "expressionist-abstractionist." The painter, Hale added, was once a guard at the Metropolitan. Troyanovsky translated to Molotov: "He was formerly of the avant-garde...
...likely buck at the opera, Harriette would sigh: "His legs were so beautiful, and his skin so clear and transparent . . . and 30,000 a year besides." The proudest titles of Britain vied for her favor; the heirs to great fortunes rushed from Oxford and Cambridge to throng her opera box...