Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of the youngsters-student editors convened from every section of the country by Columbia's Scholastic Press Association-excitedly wondered if the President would toss them a whopping scoop, such as an announcement that he will run for office again. Harry Truman chose not to let that cat out of the bag. Instead, beamish and bubbly, he told his young audience in the Waldorf-Astoria's grand ballroom...
...replies Morris might have made, he chose one best calculated to annoy the committee and cast doubts on his own judgment. Said Morris: "Well, if you want to look at it from another point of view, think what a dreadful thing they did to the Communist economy. They deprived them of dollars . . . They helped to draw dollars out of Russia. Was that not good...
With her old friend Drucie Snyder Horton, daughter of the Treasury Secretary, and an escort of six Secret Service guards, Margaret Truman arrived in Malibu, Calif, for a two-week beach holiday and some personal appearances. For the radio, she chose the operetta Sari, in which she played the daughter of a gypsy fiddler; for television, she started rehearsing as the friendly foil of Comic Jimmy Durante...
...when the Japanese were beginning to throw off the influences of India and China and to develop styles of their own. In those days, artists of every sort swarmed about the great Buddhist temples at Nara, 20 miles south of Kyoto. Some worked with stone, wood and metals. Others chose lacquer, mixing it with powdered incense, spreading it on linen strips over models of wood or plaster, and then painting their work in flaming vermilion, gold and blue. Over the years, most of their work has been lost or burned, but enough of it remains to show how good some...
General Douglas MacArthur did not come out for Senator Taft in his Mississippi speech last Saturday, although such an endorsement was both needed and expected by the Ohio Republican. Instead, the General chose to deliver a thirty-seven minute cry of doom and denunciation that reached a new level of bitter political partisanship and may herald an independent bid for office...