Word: elegante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Political Career: Elected to Parliament in 1931 for a Bedfordshire seat that he has held ever since. As elegant backbencher he praised Franco, Mussolini and Hitler, joined the Friends of Franco, and overenthusiastically defended Munich ("Hitler could absorb Czechoslovakia and Britain could remain secure"). When Churchill replaced Chamberlain and obviously...
¶ In Moscow, top-ranking U.S. Violinist Isaac Stern was turned loose in the hall where Yehudi Menuhin, the last American artist to play in Russia, fiddled a decade ago. More than 2,000, including (as the U.S.S.R.'s Violinist David Oistrakh put it) "all the violinists in Moscow...
An elegant 35 on the first nine brought Burke within reach, and on the 18th green, a tricky, downhill putt lay between him and a one-under-par 71. Putting with a crisp tap, as if he were driving a tack into the ball, Burke sank the all-important shot...
Gene mosttimes elegant in a goatee, is a nice fellow who's done some work in Social Relations and thinks that he'd like to visit Montreal. As he says, "I'd sure like to make that scene." Here in Cambridge he studies in the daytime, "but this place really...
After Estes evaluated and entered, the cards indeed seemed to be stacked against him. While Adlai Stevenson whisked across Minnesota on the wings of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor organization headed by U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey and Governor Orville Freeman, Kefauver slogged through the state with a collection of political paupers...