Word: directs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hopeful of opening direct channels of communication with art movements in the satellite countries, the Whitney Museum had sent some 300 copies of the book overseas addressed to museums and individual artists. From Warsaw and Cracow, Budapest and Szeged, Prague, Zatec and Bucharest came a stream of letters, catalogues, books and even original drawings and engravings from artists who wished to reciprocate the Whitney's gesture. The letters were scrupulously nonpolitical. Nearly all had two points in common: 1) unstinting praise for the book, and 2) surprise that American painting was so good. One Rumanian intellectual, unreported for years...
...Cologne, where she is visiting her father, the Iranian Ambassador to West Germany, childless Soraya said she was prepared to "sacrifice my own happiness" because the Shah "considers it necessary that the constitutional monarchy be perpetuated through succession to the throne in a direct line of sons from generation to generation." As consolation, ex-Queen Soraya gets a $67,000 settlement, an annual allowance of reportedly $48,000 until she remarries, permanent possession of several million dollars' worth of jewelry bought for her by the Shah, and the honorary title of "Princess" to express the Shah's "appreciation...
...Says he: "When you extend a handshake to a fellow, you can sort of feel his pulse and evaluate him by the way his hand feels. If it's warm and if it has a firm clasp, then you know that he is affectionate and that he is direct. And if he looks you in the eye, you usually know that he is dependable...
...allies, has asked U.S. military experts to make a special study of Spain's "increased vulnerability" on the ground that U.S. bases have made his country a "frontline" target of Soviet long-range missiles. Spain is the only nation in Western Europe now receiving direct grants of economic aid from the U.S. But Franco argues that Spain received no help under the Marshall Plan, is asking for enough additional money to help raise the Spanish economy to the level of the rest of Western Europe...
...stars to its roster, often by hiring other agents, with their list of clients, or absorbing their agencies. On movie lots, the M.C.A. agent became so powerful that he decided what stars would play in what movies, and for how much, along with who would write the script and direct it. M.C.A. tax men found new ways for stars to save on taxes, notably by getting a percentage of a movie instead of a big salary, thus spreading income over many years...