Word: chief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make for some bright writing and the appearance of punditic discovery. "One evidence of the change," wrote the Washington Evening Star's Garnett Horner from Gettysburg, "is the very fact that he held a news conference here at all yesterday." The New York Times's Washington Bureau Chief James Reston played a variation on the New Ike theme: "What appeared was not really 'a new Ike' at all, but a new reflection of that captivating figure, the 'old Ike' of London and Paris and the prepolitical days of long...
...SHELLEY BILL, sponsored by California Democrat John F. Shelley. Mildest of the three, it would merely require labor unions to open their books for inspection. It carried the faint blessing of A.F.L.-C.I.O. Chief George Meany, but not of Teamster Hoffa, who opposes reform of any kind...
...diplomatic service, he put his passion into social climbing. The life of the salons provides Author Painter with the most fascinating and amusing section of his book. The Parisian wits skewered each other like shish kebab. At Mme. Aubernon's (a fat, lively little woman and the chief model for Mme. Verdurin in Remembrance), the subject for conversation was announced days in advance. "What is your opinion of adultery?" she asked Mme. Straus (a Duchesse de Guermantes model) when that was the theme. Mme. Straus replied, "I'm so sorry; I prepared incest by mistake...
From the monastery he had entered a few days before, the youth wrote a letter: "For what do you weep, blind fools, why do you lament . . . ? What can I say of you if you grieve at this, if not that you are my chief enemies, and even the enemies of virtue?" Thus in 1474 did 21-year-old Girolamo Savonarola console his parents, whom he had left without warning and without a word of goodbye, to become a Dominican novice. With the courage and cold zeal of a saintly fanatic, Savonarola continued to rage against virtue's enemies until...
...Ransom of Red Chief (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Abetted by the network, Scriptwriter Phil Reisman Jr. has tampered inexcusably with O. Henry's hilarious tale of the kidnaping of a young hellion. With William Bendix, Hans Conried, and Mickey Rooney's nine-year-old son Teddy...