Word: cool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week it was the city's turn to honor the composer. In the cool, wide Romanesque gardens of Budapest's Karolyi Palace, concertgoers gathered to pay Zoltan Kodaly homage on the 25th birthday of his best-but not best known-work. First they heard the Budapest Symphony Orchestra galumph pleasantly through the concert suite from Kodaly's bright, bumptiously good-humored opera...
Quiet-spoken David Joseph, 61, who liked to go home before the sun went down and the first edition came up (TIME, June 28), had been made assistant managing editor. Into Joseph's job went able, cool Robert Garst, 47, who intends to keep.the same hours as most of his 150 reporters (2 to 11 p.m.). One sensible and (for the Times') revolutionary result: the new city editor would read his staff's stories before they went into the morning paper, see the finished Times before its subscribers...
This seemed to worry Tito not at all, nor his efficient security police. He let others do his talking. And while he kept cool-and safe-on an inaccessible island in the Adriatic, the Yugoslav comrades talked big and fast. They flatly rejected the Cominform charges as "slanders and fabrications," and countercharged conspiracy "to impair the prestige of the [Yugoslav] Communist Party." Fifteen thousand of them sent off a telegram to Comrade Stalin asking him to remove the "false accusations." The telegram was tied with baby-blue ribbons: "Long live our teacher of love toward the Soviet Union, Comrade Tito...
...face of the Republican Party, as shown by its candidates, had never appeared so photogenic, so confident, so politically winning. Gazing out from the front pages of the nation's press, it smoothly combined the cool self-assurance of Thomas Edmund Dewey, 46, with the genial Western affability of smiling Earl Warren...
Later that night, cool and resplendent in a crisp straw hat and double-breasted suit, big, grey Arthur Vandenberg ambled contentedly over to the Bellevue-Stratford to congratulate Tom Dewey...