Word: eleanor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dickert, Anne Dirkes, Kathleen Donahue, Joan Dye, Kathryn Egan, Marta Erdman, Lenora Ersner, Jane Farley, Marcelle Farrington, Dorothy Ferenbaugh, Blanche Finn, Rosemary L. Frank, Mary Elizabeth Fremd, Judith Friedberg, Marcia Gauger, Marie Kathryn Gibbons, Jean Gutheim, Dorothy Slavin Haysteafl, Harriet Heck, Robin Hinsdale, Bonnie Claire Howells, Vera Kovarsky, E. Eleanore Larsen, Sylvia Crane Myers, Helen Newlin, Amelia North, Mary Baylor Reinhart, Margaret Rorison, Deirdre Mead Ryan, Jane Darby Scholl, Ruth Silva, M. Ava Smith, Zona Sparks, Frances Stevenson, Jean Sulzberger, Yi Ying Sung, Eleanor Tatum, Paula von Haim-berger, Marilyn Wellemeyer, Joan Wharton...
...your June 22 People section, you have really hit a new low: Eleanor Roosevelt touring Japanese coal mines-what sensible miner wouldn't be astonished? Frances Perkins "honored"-by Glamour magazine yet-for 50 years of service to the working girl. They call it "service"? Aly Khan-how thoughtful of him to pick a stud farm this time . . . Lady Astor, an ... arrogant woman, being horrified at the idea that she could have married a U.S. Army officer. Nobody in his right mind would believe it ... And last, the driveling of Diana Barrymore. She observes . . . that women are no damn...
...Helped draft a U.N. Covenant of Human Rights. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt was for two years chairman of the drafting commission, but the influence of delegates from the Soviet Union and other dictatorships is apparent in the document. The covenant dilutes such natural rights as freedom of religion, speech, press and assembly by mixing them with highly dubious "rights." Some of these "rights" would enlarge government powers instead of restricting them. According to the covenant, for example, the state is obliged to see to such things as "healthy development of the child" and "environmental hygiene" and "the right of everyone...
Vienna had heard of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, but it did not expect that a voice which had pleased the Met would necessarily be good enough to please Vienna. The Viennese suspended judgment when they heard that an American soprano named Eleanor Steber, born in Wheeling, W. Va., was coming to town for a lead role in their June music festival. Soprano Steber, making the first continental tour of her career, suspended judgment, too. By last week she was the bit of Vienna...
...after the first performance: "America can be proud to have such a singer." Last week, after a repeat performance, the Vienna State Opera announced that the soprano from Wheeling* had been invited to sing in Vienna next year just as much as her Metropolitan Opera schedule will allow. Said Eleanor Steber: "That I was accepted singing Strauss in Vienna is so thrilling that I still find it hard to believe...