Word: eleanor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deaths of two old friends made Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt, 66, really thoughtful: "As I grow older I get the feeling that we should put our house in order, so to speak, and not leave too many things at loose ends, for when will our own call come? . . . The difficulty about getting these things accomplished is that you always think a little more time lies before you. And yet when you open the morning paper and read that someone you talked to a short few days ago is gone, it makes you stop, look and listen...
...world situation being what it is, Maryland's lame-duck Senator Millard R. Tydings announced, the family had decided to cancel the elaborate "coming-of-age ball" in Washington's Mayflower Hotel for their pretty, blonde, 18-year-old daughter Eleanor. Both parents and grandparents, onetime Ambassador and Mrs. Joseph E. Davies, decided it would be better to substitute "a small and simple" dance at the Chevy Chase Club "in keeping with the austerity of the times...
...fast, typical John Gunther look at F.D.R.; Louis Fischer looked longer at Gandhi but had more trouble trying to tell what he thought he saw, in his slogging, monotonous Life of Mahatma Gandhi. One of the year's best biographies was Amy Kelly's scholarly and readable Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings; another was Yale Professor Roland Bainton's exhaustive life of Protestant Martin Luther, Here I Stand. Louise Hall Tharp, a writing housewife, dared to try a delicate job and brought it off successfully in a spirited three-woman biography, The Peabody...
...performance of the Magnificat was the most consistently enjoyable event of the evening. The soloists: Eleanor Davis, Eunice Albert, Paul Tibbets, and Hughes Cuenod were all excellent although Cuenod faltered somewhat in high passages. The alto section was rather weak, but the chorus as a whole sang precisely and well. Their singing showed thorough preparation...
Stanger is well trained to take over the Job. He has studied with Eleanor to Carafe the and has been assistant conductor to Leonard Bernstein for two years at Tangle wood. Last year, Stanger assisted Burgin in conducting the New England Symphony Orchestra...