Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...without politics; the commander in chief of the largest military coalition in history cannot command (and win) without political maneuvering, and the officer charged with transforming an international paper army into reality cannot do that job, as Eisenhower did, without learning a great deal about the political passions of Capitol Hill (or Whitehall or the Quai d'Orsay...
China. Moving on to Oklahoma City, where the New York Yankees' pitcher, Allie Reynolds, welcomed him, Stevenson, who has been too busy for baseball, bloopered: "I wish I could hit like you." In his speech before a crowd of 75,000 at the state capitol, he briefly defended the Administration's record on China: echoing the State Department's 1949 White Paper on the subject, he presented the familiar argument that China's Nationalist regime could have been saved from the Communists only by sending U.S. soldiers to China...
...Richmond, Ike had his first brush with accident. He had just finished talking from a temporary platform in front of the old Capitol when the platform collapsed. Ike fell five feet, went to his knees. Then he stood up unhurt, grinned and brushed himself...
Other noteworthy new releases: Beethoven: Leonore No. 3, Egmont and Coriolanus Overtures (Joseph Keilberth conducting the Berlin Philharmonic and Bamberg Symphony Orchestras; Capitol-Telefunken); Liszt: Spanish Rhapsody (Miklos Schwalb; Academy); Mozart: Requiem (Hilde Gueden, Rosette Anday, Julius Patzak, Josef Greindl, Salzburg Dome Choir; Mozarteum Orchestra conducted by Josef Messner; Remington); Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade (Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra conducted by Antal Dorati; Mercury) ; Schubert: A Song Recital (Herman Schey, bass-baritone; Poly music); Tchaikovsky: "Pathétique" Symphony (Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy...
...year of Paris, Harrison found the tides beginning to turn. The Renaissance revival was losing momentum; the skyscraper boom of the '205 was under way. Harrison left McKim, Mead & White and went to work for Bertram Goodhue, who had just woh a competition for the Nebraska state capitol. Harrison worked on some of the dome designs for the capitol, and became one of Goodhue's top designers...