Word: counts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tidy little gardens of verse periodically raked up by Poetot Minou Drouet have nurtured some singularly muse-smitten responses: by the latest count, the lady's Christmas mail included some 20 proposals of marriage. Lest any readers be tormented by life imitating Lolita, the daily Paris-Journal solemnly presented reassurance: petite Minou, 11, has rejected her suitors...
...result, Columbia has awarded master's degrees to an impressive roster of the successful in journalism, at last nose count had produced 64 publishers, 67 editors in chief, 36 Washington correspondents, and 66 Timesmen. Says Columbia's Dean Edward W. Barrett, class of '33: "If anybody asks me if he must go to journalism school, I'd say no. It's not necessary like law or medicine. But for the average person going into journalism, the training allows him to advance five, six or even ten years faster...
...trends, says the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Economic Review, "are producing a virtual revolution in industrial life. These changes are bound to place unions in a less friendly environment." If their membership continues to drop in relation to the total work force, unions may well find that they can count on less public sympathy for strikes, less power at the polls, and more demands for laws to prevent fewer and fewer workers from throwing more and more out of work...
Goyas & Gielgud. Washington's most lavish diplomatic entertainments are given by Spain's Ambassador José Marie M. de Areilza, Count of Motrico, and his wife, who live in one of the capital's most breathtaking houses (white-walled ballroom, priceless tapestries, bubbling fountain). The Spaniards are hosts at huge New Year's Eve balls, an annual Columbus Day party (1,000 guests) and spring Verbena (carnival), bring in flamenco dancers who whirl to the clapping of the guests (including the ambassador, sitting on the floor). For perfectly detailed dinners and suppers, nobody surpasses Peru...
...Petain, and a string of kings ranging in power from the glorious days of Louis XIV, the Roi Soleil, to the hunted 10th century time of Hugh Capet, the founder of the Capetian line, who scarcely dared stir out of Paris for fear of being trounced by the powerful Count of Flanders and the proud Duke of Normandy...