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...While sleeping peacefully, Queen Mary died at 20 minutes past 10 o'clock." Next day Winston Churchill's voice was husky as he moved a "humble Address" from the House of Commons: "She looked like a Queen; she acted like a Queen . . ." On the Labor benches opposite, Clement Attlee was as visibly moved. "There has never been a Queen," he said, "who was so beloved by everybody, and I think this is because of her extraordinary kindness...
...program was so discriminatingly planned that I cannot forebear some discussion of it. There chief strands of late 16th century music were brought together. Clement's famous Adoramus and a Benedictus by Palestrina represented what was called the stile antico, a restrained contrapuntal style used in orthodox church music. Giovanni Gabrieli's dazzling Symphoniae Sacrae combined elements of both the Renaissance splendor of Venice and the Baroque love o the spectacular; finally, a number of chansons by Lassus, Arcadelt, and Regnard exemplified the piquant secular songs of the period...
...Ambassador to Italy in the touch & go postwar years, James Clement Dunn was credited with an important part in keeping Italy free from Communist control. Shifted to Paris in March 1952, he was somewhat overshadowed by the unprecedented cluster of U.S. envoys with ambassadorial rank who made their headquarters there.* Last week President Eisenhower named Dunn to a new post, for which he is well equipped: U.S. Ambassador to Spain...
...never attempted to play the grande dame-though she has had Clement Attlee for her dinner partner, lunched with Queen Juliana met King Haakon in Oslo...
...More Than You Promise." When they set up their village smithy and wagon-building shop in South Bend 101 years ago, brothers Clement and Henry Studebaker had just $68 to their name. But soon they and three other brothers were cashing in on the nation's great push westward making covered wagons for the pioneers and carts and carriages for the local trade. "Always give the customer more than you promise," was their motto, "but not too much, or you'll go broke." One of the company's first formal contracts was brief and to the point...