Word: corners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the air of a Little Jack Horner just back from his own special corner, Foreign Operations Administrator Harold Stassen hustled up to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week to put across the point that he had been a very good boy indeed. He had stuck his thumb into world economic problems at the London conference (Britain, France, the U.S.) last fortnight, and the plum he was holding up for the Senators to see was a U.S. decision to go along with an expansion of trade in "nonstrategic" items between the West and Russia...
...television rights brought the total to a record for a non-heavyweight bout. Bobo's share of all this was 35%. On good-natured impulse, he took a lei from his own neck and draped it over the neck of the startled Gavilan, then walked to his corner to await the opening bell...
...usually soporific A.M.A. Journal came out of its editorial corner hopping mad: "The unauthorized and medically unethical use of the prestige and reputation of the A.M.A. and the Journal in Kent cigarette advertisements . . . constitutes an outrageous example of commercial exploitation of the American medical profession. The implication . . . that the A.M.A. authorizes, supports or approves any particular brand of cigarettes or combination of claims made in their behalf-whether pygmy-sized or king-sized, with or without filters, nicotinized or denicotinized-provides a most reprehensible instance of hucksterism...
Around the Corner. The Genoa showing added new fuel to the revival of interest in Caravaggio, which has been growing steadily ever since Milan staged a Caravaggio retrospective three years ago. In recent months Critic Bernard Berenson has published an appraisal of Caravaggio's work, and British Critic Roger Hinks has added a critical biography of one of the world's most spectacular artistic adventurers...
...Rome at 18 and almost immediately captured the capital by his talent for naturalistic painting, although contemporary academicians tut-tutted his ignorance of Raphaelesque composition and decorum. He worked directly from nature, without preliminary sketches, and painted sacred history as if it had all happened just around the corner...