Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Uncompromising Verdict. It took a second reading, and some reflection, to discourage optimists. Said one foreign diplomat, after lunch: "I am stupid. I have done it again & again. I thought this morning for a while that the Russians really meant business." Square, old-fashioned Warren Austin, senior U.S. delegate who likes to look for the bright side, at first thought Gromyko's words meant "a very promising advance." But It turned out that he had misunderstood at least one ambiguous passage...
Perfectly Sane. During the war, Bourin had met Jacqueline ("Kiki") Rousseau* in Germany, where she had done her share of collaborating. For him, it was le grand amour. "Ah, Kiki," he sighed. "It is because of her that I am on trial. They put me in here to get her away from me. For a year she waited, but now she is married...
...three days across the border the President had conducted no state business, but had done much to foster good-neighborly relations-just what he wanted. In his quiet way, the President had scored a big hit. Said a telegraph clerk: "That smile kind of gets you. He ought to come back often." clanged out The Missouri Waltz, the President, now in frock coat and silk hat, walked across the street to the Parliament Building with Mackenzie King. The House of Commons chamber was full. Bess Truman, in the Speaker's Gallery, smiled down from under a huge white...
Even before he began work on The Doctor in 1891 Sir Luke knew it would be a great success: "more terrible, perhaps, but yet more beautiful," than anything else he had done. A careful workman, he first built in his London studio, like a movie set, the cottage interior he intended to use.'Copying that on canvas, and painting the dawn stealing in the prop window, Fildes inserted the characters he had in mind: worried parents hovering in the shadows, their sick little girl feverishly sleeping in the light of an oil lamp, and the bearded doctor leaning over...
Mossman, a balding, limpid-eyed arranger who can bat out an "adaptation" in a day, has done 400 of them. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, he has turned out some Gershwinesque compositions of his own. His New York Concerto is to be played by the Boston "Pops" Orchestra this summer. He has also won a fellowship to study composition and conducting at Serge Koussevitzky's Berkshire Music Center...