Word: chats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city below, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre looms in the dusk beneath a skeleton of steel girders that shores it up, a byproduct of the 1927 earthquake. A group of Greek Orthodox priests in conical hats chat quietly in the courtyard, and inside a Russian nun kneels beneath the dim flicker of three lanterns to kiss the Stone of Unction, where Christ's body is supposed to have been anointed for burial (several such Stones of Unction are said to have been kissed away by pilgrims...
...stop strangers in the streets, in buses, in soda fountains, where he would talk understandingly about their problems without letting on that he was a Congressman. He took no vacations outside of a weekend or two in Montreal, where he liked to walk around the older parts of town chatting with janitors. Congressman Lane liked everybody-although he was no backslapper, no enthusiastic pal. "The only person I recall him not liking," a friend said, "was Vito Marcantonio, and he would even chat with...
...desert him. I remember being in London a few years after he soared into the upper reaches of the theeatre, He was also there on business. I was stopping at the Mayfair and called him at his hotel and asked him if he could drop around for a nostalgic chat. He said: 'be right over, Sam.' As he knew the logical place to find me, I went down to the bar and he soon burst in and went into the usual back-slapping and greetings. We finally eased ourselves over to a table in the dining room and began ordering...
...phone call from Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Summoned to Washington, he reported, to confer with Dulles and President Eisenhower, Graham canceled a sermon ("Our Christian Heritage"), hopped a plane that evening. Next day, although he missed seeing Ike, Religious Diplomat Graham emerged from an hour's chat with Dulles in the Secretary's Georgetown home. He had got a solid briefing on India, told waiting newsmen that Foster Dulles has repeatedly demonstrated himself to be "a man of peace...
...buying large blocks. The someone turned out to be Edward Lamb of Toledo, a left-wing labor lawyer turned business tycoon who has amassed a $30 million empire (24 companies, six radio and TV stations, a newspaper). When the worried second generation of Seiberlings invited Lamb in for a chat last October, he appeared, but said little. That was the last they saw of Lamb...