Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Sam Harris, 33, of New York, a handsome, uniformed, confident figure, stepped to the microphone in Nürnberg's courtroom last week and read seriously from the first page of his brief: "The noise you hear is my knees knocking. They haven't knocked like this since the day I asked my wife to marry me." To cover their embarrassment, the British lawyers smiled. The Russians shrugged; such naiveté was just one more thing they did not understand about Americans. But the Russians were not surprised when Harris went on to make a highly effective...
Gnomes & Communiqués. Byrnes went to Spasso House, the U.S. embassy, where he spent the next morning reading a long document prepared in Washington to brief him on Big Three issues throughout the world. Bevin went to the British embassy, where Ambassador Clark Kerr turned over to him his living room-bedroom-bath apartment which he calls "Proust" because it has a paneled bath room like the one in which Author Marcel Proust's Albertine used to splash. Clark Kerr's bedroom has dark walnut paneling under a royal blue border with gold flow ers. The paneling...
...Workman (Nov. 10, 1924) thought that TIME showed bias in referring to Methodism as a sect; ED. said he preferred sect to denomination because it was a four-letter word. Reader Goler advised us-correctly -that Airman Wilbur Wright died of typhoid, not pneumonia, as TIME had said. A brief dissertation on the subject of Cain's wife led to a longer one on Calvin Coolidge's mistaking (in a speech) a hit by Baseball's Walter Johnson for an error by Shortstop Jackson. ED. agreed that it would be silly to choose a Chief Executive...
According to romantic legend, the young and ardent Rudolf had fallen in love with the youthful Baroness, who was small, round and luscious. For a brief time they were happy. Then, rather than obey Emperor Franz Josef's stern order to separate, they died together. Such was the cinema version of Mayerling which Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux played out against a background of Strauss waltzes...
Except for a brief period during the revolution when books were scattered to Andover, Concord, and other safer locations, Harvard Hall remained the college library until 1838. Then, Gore Hall, made possible by the unrestricted bequest of Christopher Gore, was built at a cost...