Word: eleanor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. George T. Bye, 70, topflight literary agent who pushed the writing careers of such notables as Rebecca West, Deems Taylor, Alexander Woollcott and Charles A. Lindbergh, encouraged his close friend Eleanor Roosevelt to start her syndicated column "My Day"; after long illness; in New Canaan, Conn...
...running, watery green light, and the Commendatore (no longer cumbrously on horseback) glowed dimly through the iron grille of a crypt, like a sea creature in a grotto. Through the mellow moonlit streets moved the kind of cast only a great opera house could muster: Cesare Siepi, Eleanor Steber, Lisa Della Casa, Roberta Peters, Cesare Valletti, Giorgio Tozzi, Fernando Corena, Theodor Uppman, all in top form...
Politicians are acting like old grads when the eleven loses two games in a row. By all means shoot Eisenhower, Engine Charlie, the Chiefs of Staff, the scientists, even Harry Truman and Eleanor Roosevelt. We can still deliver the ultimate weapon, too, by a missile of shorter range from a plane, from a submarine, or just in an old-fashioned suitcase smuggled across a border...
TIME'S Arkansas story sounds like a collaboration between Eleanor Roosevelt and Harriet Beecher Stowe as rewritten by a Hearst editor...
Describing the Russian people as "wonderful," Globetrotter Eleanor Roosevelt, 72, climaxed her first trip to the Soviet Union by interviewing Communist Boss Nikita S. Khrushchev for almost three hours at his summer villa on the Black Sea near Yalta. "War is unthinkable," Khrushchev told Mrs. Roosevelt, who called the hard-drinking, explosive Soviet leader "a cordial, simple, outspoken man who got angry at certain spots and emphasized the things he believed." But when Khrushchev accused her of hating Communists, Mrs. Roosevelt quickly replied: "Oh no, I don't. I don't hate anybody. I don't believe...