Word: detail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Kentucky's courtly, blue-eyed Colonel Ed, 68, his back still shot gun-straight in a 6-ft.-2-in. frame, his tread still cat-smooth, announced his retirement, effective Nov.1. After nearly three decades on the White House detail, U.S. Secret Service, Colonel Ed was going fishing...
...Major General Ralph Royce left his First Air Force (headquarters Mitchel Field, L.I.) for foreign duty. Airmen guessed he was headed for Cairo to take over the Ninth, relieving Major General Lewis H. Brereton. Whatever his detail, airmen approved the choice...
...normal ending of the story would have been capture and internment, but Wissenback was different. Hastily he folded his chute and hid it in a thick clump of weeds. Then he hid himself. What happened after that cannot be told in detail...
...special academic meeting was called for the occasion in sanders Theatre, with all the pomp and ceremonial detail of a regular Commencement. After this, the Prime Minister addressed' the 6,000 uniformed Harvard students massed in review before Memorial Church, and a similar number of civilians who filled the Tercentenary Theatre to the doors of Widener...
...think Rembrandt was terrific. Is it because Rockwell is commercial? ... If so, would you say that the work of Michelangelo, Franz Hals and Velasquez is also not art? They did their stuff to order for the Popes, Medicis, burghers and princes. ... Is it because Rockwell enjoys detail? If so, where does that put Vermeer, Dürer and Holbein? Is it because he puts the light of beauty ("sweetness," if you like) into the tired and commonplace? And if so, where does that leave Raphael, Correggio, Botticelli & Co.? . . . My impulse is to say "Nuts...