Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Servan-Schreiber [TIME, Sept. 27] paints a beautiful picture of what Mendés-France is trying to do for France. We wish him well, and I am sure that if he succeeds Americans will be among the first to cheer...
...cheer for the import of Scotch whisky, but perhaps there ought to be a stiffer tariff on Scotch whimsey. The latest cinematic highball, High and Dry [TIME, Sept. 13], is every bit as charming as your excellent movie reviewer says it is, in fact, so relentlessly charming that about halfway through one longs for a refreshing draft of Mickey Spillane. But underneath all the charm, the picture is a perfect allegory of America's fate in Europe...
After a busy day in Bonn, the Secretary hurried on to London, bypassing Paris in what seemed a calculated rebuke to the French. At the London airport, on his way home, he was amazed to see a mooing chorus of bobby-soxers led by cheer leaders. But as Dulles climbed out of an embassy limousine, an aide explained that the youngsters had not turned out to see him off at all. They were waiting for Crooner Frankie Laine, expected on the next Paris plane. "I thought they were there to greet me," chuckled Dulles. "What a disappointment. See what fame...
...Nine out of ten people who buy reproductions may know or care little about art. They may be housewives in search of a sunset to hang over a mauve sofa and a painted bouquet to match the floral drapes in the guest room, or decorators trying to bring dreadful cheer to thousands of bare hotel rooms. Stacks of floral pieces, faithful dogs, pink-coated huntsmen, summer landscapes and angelic children are certainly a "common heritage," but not the one Malraux talks about...
...latest Gallup Poll, the Attlee tour was popular. In favor: 43%; against: 20%; don't know or don't care: 37%. Conservative voters disapproved of the tour, but only by a margin of 37% to 28%. Laborites gave their leader a rousing 63% to 8% cheer. The poll had been taken at the tour's outset, and perhaps subsequent events had changed a few minds: the British press, at least, was developing serious objections. "Not since Marco Polo," observed Lord Beaverbrook's breezy Daily Express, "has there been a more astonishing pilgrimage to China...