Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paintbox. Using bedticking for canvas, he painted Lafayette, Washington, General Nathanael Greene and a host of other officers, turned out miniatures on ivory on the side. Once, when painting General Washington in 1777, Peale found himself eyewitnessing a high moment in history. An aide handed Washington a dispatch. After one glance, Washington for a moment lost his iron control, jubilantly shouted, "Burgoyne is taken," then quickly resumed his solemn pose...
...police tried to lead the men away, the crowd rose to the occasion, jostled the officers and pushed a taxi to the sidewalk. One of the officers then pulled his pistol and held up the crowd until four paddy wagons arrived with 40 policemen, night sticks in hand, to dispatch the uprising...
...United Press dispatch from Bonn said the Chancellor would probably visit the United States next month and may confer with President Eisenhower...
...political rule in the state's Duval County (TIME, Feb. 15, 1954); for editorial writing, the Detroit's Free Press's Royce Howes, for an editorial on the responsibility of labor and management in an unauthorized U.A.W. strike against Chrysler; for cartooning, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Cartoonist Daniel R. Fitzpatrick, for a cartoon urging the U.S. to stay clear of involvement in Indo-China; for photography, Los Angeles Times Staff Photographer John L. Gaunt Jr., for a picture titled "Tragedy in the Surf." Pulitzer awards in other fields: fiction, William Faulkner's A Fable; drama, Tennessee...
...dispatch from Washington, where the American Society of Newspaper Editors was in annual convention, notified the Kansas City Star and its readers that the Star's 68-year-old president, Roy A. Roberts, whose wife died three years ago, had become engaged to marry Mrs. Charles G. Ross, widow of the presidential press secretary to Harry Truman...