Word: eleanor
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Surely a group of outstanding Americans, including Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Messrs. Milton Eisenhower, Sulzberger, Clay and Lewis, could find a better use for $25 million than a granite monument in Georgia [TIME, Aug. 17], which only a small percentage of the population will ever see. Wouldn't $25 million worth of medical research centers, rural libraries, history scholarships and the like prove a more fitting monument to American history than this eyesore at Pine Mountain...
Town Meeting of the Air (Tues. 9 p.m., ABC). "Report on India and the East," with Eleanor Roosevelt, James Michener...
...birth, the U.S. has been so busy making history that it has found little time to enshrine that history in formal monuments. America's pyramids are its functional skyscrapers, and its triumphal arches are the factory girders. Last week a committee of Americans (including Milton Eisenhower, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, General Lucius Clay, John L. Lewis) announced plans for a huge monument to the U.S. past, to be erected atop Pine Mountain, near Warm Springs...
Nearing the end of a three-month globe-trot, Eleanor Roosevelt, 68, spent a weekend with Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, 61, at his summer retreat on the Adriatic, later told how fine it was that Yugoslavia had "so young-feeling a man" as its leader. "His sort of whimsy and youth is a fortunate thing for the nation...
...Metropolitan Opera stars were the center of attention in the opening-night Lohengrin. The part of Elsa was splendidly sung by Eleanor Steber, in her first German-language appearance in Germany; Astrid Varnay turned in a solid performance as Ortrud. Some critics said it was the best Lohengrin they could remember. Two 'other Met stars scored in the Parsifal: George London as Amfortas and Chile's Ramon Vinay as a slightly Latinate Parsifal...