Word: chats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very unusual nightclub" that he was sure his friends would enjoy. This time he brought along Daniel Rios, a waiter at their hotel. On the way, as the old couple sat restfully in the stern of the boat, the waiter and the travel agent stepped back to chat. Just as the tourists looked up, they were attacked and beaten to death with a baseball bat and a length of chain. The guests were stripped of money and about $18,000 in jewels, their bodies wrapped in chains. Then the hosts dumped them overboard and sailed home...
...last December, while Secretary Dulles was in Europe, Stassen called a press conference and suggested, to the consternation of Dulles and U.S. allies alike, that both the U.S. and Russia might withdraw their forces from Europe. Last week Stassen and Dulles dropped in at the White House for a chat with President Eisenhower. When they came out, Dulles' sword was sheathed, Stassen was virtually disarmed. Announced Dulles: the President had directed Stassen henceforth to operate under policy guidance of the Secretary of State. Despite the fact that Harold will keep his Cabinet rank and membership...
...weeklies' resurgence reflects editorial as well as economic vitality. In addition to relaying the back-fence chit-chat on which weeklies have traditionally thrived, the papers are the only inter preters and watchdogs of local governments in hundreds of U.S. communities, whose problems, aims and achievements go largely unrecorded in the metropolitan press. "We wouldn't be here if the dailies hadn't created the void in the first place," says a staffer on Seattle's weekly Argus (circ. 5.142), which has beaten the city's dailies on big local stories. Last week the Argus...
...hearts of the Texans. Said Coates: "To quite a few of us who are still a little hot under the collar, this program may mean the time when certain well-known novelists who have partaken of Texas hospitality [e.g., Edna Ferber, author of Giant] and certain self-styled smart-chat writers for such magazines as Esquire and Holiday [e.g., Author Cleveland Amory] who have pointed out the crudities of certain Texans in tiresome, monotonous repetition, will remember to mention what Texans have done for institutions like this and for the humanities generally...
Bump Elliott, backfield coach at Iowa and one of those known to have been interviewed said "I was not offered the position. We just had a very informal chat, a get acquainted meeting. Bolles generally outlined the situation at Harvard, and we exchanged ideas on football...