Word: chores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Infantrymen will appreciate Hemingway's high regard for their tough, thankless chore, but they will also be made uneasy by the uncharacteristic, cultlike talk of Hero Cantwell when he belligerently discusses his "trade." Hemingway, once a master of dialogue, seems to have forgotten how infantrymen-even colonels-really talk and think...
Word got around that Eleanor Roosevelt had taken on yet another chore: come August, she will be the narrator for Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf to the kids at the Berkshire Festival. Meanwhile, landing in London after a tour of the Continent, she planted a warm buss on the cheek of her hostess, the Dowager Marchioness of Reading...
Like Potsdam? The President's last chore of the week took him to National Airport where, with a beaming smile and a warm handclasp, he welcomed Secretary of State Dean Acheson back from the fruitful Western powers' conference in London. "I want to congratulate you," the President told Acheson. "I think it was the most successful international conference since Potsdam." The congratulations were heartfelt, but the compliment was questionable : it was at Potsdam, Mr. Truman's only meeting with Stalin, that free elections were promised to Poland, and Germany was pledged to joint occupation by the four...
This spring, at 80, Editor Blanton of Paris, Mo. (pop. 1,388) took on a new chore: a twice-a-week column of reminiscences for the Globe-Democrat (circ. 293,404). By last week, Blanton's nostalgic, witty and folk-wise column was bringing in more reader mail than almost any other Globe-Democrat department. This new success did not surprise Jack Blanton. Says he: "City people, down underneath, are just like rural folks. You run a Tom, Dick and Harry paper, like I have for 60 years, and you begin to see it's the warm...
...socially-conscious businessman, Georgia-born Marion Bayard Folsom, 56, has spent almost as much time in Washington, B.C. during the past 15 years as he has at his treasurer's desk in the $380 million Eastman Kodak Co. This week Folsom takes on another civic chore: the chairmanship of the businessman's Committee for Economic Development, succeeding West Coast Banker W. Walter Williams, 56, who wants to run for U.S. Senator from Washington...