Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Russell sat down and wrote a letter to Albert Einstein at Princeton, N.J., outlining his thoughts. Einstein replied, agreeing "with every word," and naming Russell the "dictator of the enterprise." Russell drafted a 1,500-word statement and sent it winging about the world for comment and signature. The world will not long remember Dictator Russell (or Sponsor Einstein) for anything that appeared in the statement, which was a dreary mishmash of gloom-laden clich...
...announcement that he would like the "Cold War" to be changed to a "battle for peace." Included in Pravda's summary were the President's remarks that there can be no real peace in the world until the satellite nations are freed,* stranger still. Ike's comment, when he was asked about Bulganin, that it is a "puzzle . . . who is, or what is the dominating influence" in the Soviet government. Such thoughts have hitherto been considered too dangerous for Pravda's readers. One explanation: the Russian people also need reminding that Bulganin, for all the attention...
...after Charles McWhorter, the newly elected chairman of the Young Republican Na tional Federation, read Ike a resolution that the organization had passed at its convention. The resolution ,urged Ike to run. When McWhorter finished reading it in the perfectly enunciated tones of a network announcer, Ike's comment was: "Well, you got through all of that perfectly." Later in the week, as he toured through New Hampshire, Ike set the political Geiger counters to clacking. At every stop he sounded more and more like a campaigner. He often had a special bow for his White House "chief...
...remarks on a telecast. His target: Montgomery, the state's capital; it gets so hot there, said Godfrey, that folks would just curl up and die if they didn't have air conditioning. Its civic pride bruised, Montgomery's daily Advertiser promptly cracked back: "Before we comment on Arthur Godfrey's wicked attack . . . we want it clearly understood that we don't listen to the bum." Regretted the Advertiser: if only Godfrey had visited the city when the mercury topped 100°, Montgomerians could be "doubly sure that he won't be back." Quick...
...more opportunist than clown. In his own district, Jersey City's monthly Independent, a non-partisan newsletter, ticked him off in an imaginary interview. Sample: "Q". 'They say that you jump too easily / From the Donkey's back to the G.O.P./ Would you care to comment, Mr. T.?' A, 'I'm for only one party / A grand old party / And that grand old party...