Word: eleanor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...compliments. "It is you who took the lumps out of oatmeal," glowed Wilson & Company Inc.'s President James D. Cooney, "and showed the housewife there can be something to a meal besides broiled meat and fried potatoes. You have been responsible for making eating an adventure." Food Columnist Eleanor Richey Johnston of the Christian Science Monitor knew the compliment was deserved. "It's quite clear," said she, "that a great number of women use us as bibles...
...studio, which cost $150,000, is run under a franchise from Murray by Mrs. Ethel Fistere, who has taught such celebrities as Henry Morgenthau Jr., Rudy Vallee, Eleanor Roosevelt and Guy Lombardo to dance. Its airy ballroom resembles an outdoor terrace, with three cages of parakeets at one end; there are eight smaller dance, studios into which music is piped all day long, with different tunes available at the flip of a switch...
...helpful information about America and her customs, but they wanted the Center they established to retain the friendly family tone it had before it moved out of their living room. And though the Center maintains listings of rooms and odd jobs, the Swiss hospitality of present directors Hans and Eleanor Speigel make it more than mere welfare organization, housing bureau, or YMCA...
...sufficiently different to challenge him with the habits and thinking of other lands and nations." The Center's genial leisure fosters such an ideal. Students from hostile nations resolve their problems over the chessboard; Englishmen and Egyptians, over a pot of tea, discuss the Suez Canal bloodlessly. Hans and Eleanor feel that such intimate chats help build foundations for permanent friendship and understanding...
...York Philharmonic-Symphony conducted by Bruno Walter; Columbia). A majestic reading whose importance is somewhat dimmed by the fact that it is the 15th LP of this famed work. Columbia's reason: Walter's 77th anniversary year. Other Walter anniversary recordings: Mozart Arias (2 LPs), sung by Eleanor Steber and George London...