Word: cannoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concentration on exporting its dollars, tools and advice to the postwar world, the U.S. has been slow and a little timid about exporting its culture. But now culture is catching up with the atomic cannon, the dam builders, the agricultural advisors and the diplomats...
...asked advertising agency friends for advice on the art layout for their first cover. During this consultation, they decided to use the portrait of a personality outstanding in the current news-a TIME tradition ever since. The figure in the news that week was Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, onetime Republican Speaker of the House, who at 86 was retiring after 23 terms in Congress. One of the agency friends knew that Obie had already drawn Cannon. A hurried exchange of phone calls followed, and genial Obie readily agreed to lend the new magazine his Joe Cannon portrait...
Uncle Joe, Obie admits, was one of his most difficult subjects. He was drawn at the end of a crusty era, when the brass cuspidor was still a fixture on Capitol Hill. Cannon had six strategically placed about the Speaker's office and used them all as he received visitors and fretted while Obie drew...
After publishing The Age of Jackson, he worked for two years as a free-lance writer in Washington. Until Harvard invited him as an associate professor, he probably hesitated to risk his personal identity by continuing his family's tradition of Scholarship. Walter Bradford Cannon, his wife's father, was a noted medical researcher and professor of Physiology at Harvard. His mother is related to George Bancroft, a Jacksonian politician and outstanding historian of his day. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr. Francis Lee Higginson Professor, emeritus, is considered America's first great social historian. Before his son returned to Harvard...
...hove to off the port of Monaco one morning last week and set Hollywood's Grace Kelly aboard Deo Juvante II, the virginal white 138-ft. yacht of Grace's groom-to-be, Prince Rainier III. All Monaco broke loose. Rockets zoomed, sirens screamed, dockside trolleys klaxoned, cannon fired 21-gun salutes. Ashore, the crowd-Mone-gasques, outlanders and the cream of world jewel thievery-dutifully roared. Overhead, a seaplane belonging to Sea Lord Aristotle Socrates Onassis, controlling croupier of Monte Carlo's famed Casino, bombarded Grace and His Serene Highness with 500 red and white carnations...