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During the brisk, busy week in Washington, the President greeted France's ex-President and Madame Vincent Auriol in his best French, spoke to the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters, shook hands with 900 disabled veterans, breakfasted with 18 Republican women politicians. He also: EURJ Told Republicans at a $25-a-plate dinner, "I am so proud of being a member of the Republican Party ... We are not trying to go back to the horsecars; we are not trying to fly to Mars." ^f Golfed with two Augusta Masters Tournament winners, Gary Middlecoff and Byron Nelson. When...
...first brisk 800-mile swing gave Eden a worn look but bouncy high spirits...
Some good actors, singers, and dancers might have been able to pull even the mediocre material of Seventh Heaven together into a brisk show, but the musical is just as sadly deficient in these departments as in all the others. Peter Gennaro's choreography seems to have been inspired by one of Ed Sullivan's worst variety programs. His vaudeville approach is particularly apparent in the faulty integration of dances and plot, which sometimes raises the faint suspicion that the dancers got lost in the wrong...
...will we or many others be much impressed by his note that "the English Church of 1533 tended to uphold the laws of God a little more briskly." Judgment is brisk indeed when only bachelors may determine and administer the marriage laws of God! . . . (THE REV.) HUGH MCCANDLESS Church of the Epiphany New York City...
Permanent Part. As a history, The I Women's Army Corps is not unlike the WAC as an organization: sometimes stumbling over a mass of detail, sometimes clutching self-consciously at its literary skirts, it nevertheless manages to come out smiling and moving ahead at a brisk military pace...