Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THIS YEAR MY HUSBAND HAD THE GREAT HONOR TO CONDUCT A SPECIAL CONCERT IN THE VATICAN, OFFERED TO THE POPE BY THE ITALIAN RADIO-TV. THE POPE CHOSE THE MUSIC HE LOVED MOST, INCLUDING BEETHOVEN'S FIRST SYMPHONY. HE REQUESTED TO HEAR THIS SYMPHONY JUST BEFORE HIS DEATH...
Since Pius XII had not filled the office that would become most important after his death, that of Camerlengo (chamberlain), the 13 cardinals in Rome on the day he died hurriedly chose one: 79-year-old Vatican Diplomat Benedetto Aloisi Cardinal Masella. One of his first duties was the breaking of the Fisherman's ring worn by the late Pope as well as the larger papal seals used for documents. (Traditional purpose: to ensure against forging of papal documents...
Much as Maine Painter John Marin (another Stieglitz protege) chose the sky as his province, Dove made the earth and sea his domain. To get closer to both, he moved out of Manhattan, where he had been a successful illustrator, and bought a farm in Westport, Conn., began raising chickens. When that venture failed, he tried his hand at being a lobsterman. Art, he decided, should not depend so much on natural forms as on substituting equivalent images for them. He was searching for a means of expression that would not depend on representation, that "should have order, size, intensity...
Also, the Board chose David Rockefeller '36 as Chairman of this year's Executive Committee and installed five new members elected last year by vote of the alumni...
...Copenhagen's Klubben. The six: the Norwegian minister, the Dutch minister, the Siamese minister, two officials of the Danish Foreign Office and I, the U.S. charge d'affaires. The game, with cutting in and out, was auction, but with one new major scoring wrinkle: if you chose to jeopardize what seemed like a sure game by bidding a small slam or a grand slam, the reward, as now, was 500 points for a small slam and 1,000 for grand slam...