Word: edith
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Obernkirchen Children's Choir (Edith Möller, conductor; Angel). Thirty-five sweet-voiced youngsters from a small (pop. 6,400) town in Germany sing right prettily. Besides an ingenuous version of Schubert's Der Lindenbaum and other old favorites, they sing the popular Happy Wanderer. Their style resembles Fred Waring's showy choral technique. The group is now touring...
...more than half a century Gushing vanes pirouetted in the wind. Finally, in the 19203, the work of Waltham's anonymous craftsmen was discovered by folk-art collectors. Edith Gregor Halpert, founder of Manhattan's Downtown Gallery, busily stripped the New England skyline of more than a hundred vanes, sold them to museums. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art sent some abroad in an exhibition of American folk art. Seeing the show in Paris, Pablo Picasso exclaimed: "Cocks have always been seen, but never as well as in American weather vanes...
...made chairman of the Labor Party. Three others were hard-knuckled unionists: knobby Harry Earnshaw of the textile workers, big, handsome Harry Franklin of the railwaymen, shrewd, balding Sam Watson, a longtime battler of Communists in Durham's "Little Moscow" coal fields. And there was tall, leggy Dr. Edith Summerskill, onetime Minister of National Insurance and a militant feminist, who has terrified British males of all political hues by demanding that husbands pay their wives wages...
...Franklin. Georgy Malenkov himself invited them out to a handsome country dacha, and after picking a bunch of phlox and gladioli for Dr. Summerskill, told her gallantly: "What has been wrong too often in the world of education is that men have been too impertinent and women overmodest." Dr. Edith agreed...
...door, the servants in the attic." At lunch there were long silences between toasts, broken at last by Attlee, who abruptly asked: "How do you get your milk in Moscow?" The Russians told them, in a laborious hum of translation, broken by the clear, social-worker voice of Dr. Edith: "I'm not interested in yield. What about safety? Are all your supplies pasteurized...