Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more aid, Greece would soon get a new U.S. Ambassador. President Truman last week relieved scholarly, ailing Lincoln MacVeagh from the post he had held for eleven years, appointed him to the less demanding job of Ambassador to Portugal. MacVeagh's successor in Greece had not yet been chosen...
Koussevitsky has chosen a varied program, including both modern and classic works. Mozart's perennial favorite, the Serenade for Strings, Dine Kleine Nachtmusik, will be played, along with representative selections from three modern composers, Piston, Prokofieff, and Ravel...
...Riofreddo, who had feared that Catholic Action would be rather dull, loved the idea. The reluctant few were convinced by the monitory appearance of Father Francesco's green umbrella before their doors. Arturo Vasselli, the carpenter, volunteered to construct a rough stage in a barn. The play chosen was Le Pistrine (the name of the prisons where early Christian martyrs waited their turn to be thrown to the lions...
...brightly in the manner of Monet,* and a rather plain blonde mooning over a plum in a cafe which Degas might have painted. Their sources were often apparent, but Manet's clean, revealing light raised each picture above the level of imitation and tended to surpass even his chosen masters'. That same light had long made Manet a laughingstock of Paris...
Meanwhile, Matthews has allotted space to each department and chosen illustrations (news photographs, cartoons, historical pictures) in conference with Picture & Make-Up Editor Robert Boyd. When the stories are checked they are ready for the teletypesetters. Machines in TIME'S New York office wire the copy simultaneously to the Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles printing plants. Boyd and his assistants in New York paste up proofs on huge sheets, tell editors, late on Monday night, where lines must be added or killed to make pages...