Word: exits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...phrasing. She had no idea how to project, and she would come bounding onto the stage like a gazelle. But she had that rare thing-audience authority, the thing that makes everybody look at you when you are on stage." When things went wrong, Audrey would make her final exit crestfallen and out of breath from trying too hard. "I didn't get my laugh," she would say in distress to a fellow actor. "What did I do wrong?" At the end of the first week, when her name went up in lights on the Fulton marquee, Audrey darted...
...once back in Russia, when the cold war began, Gilmore's wife and child were no longer allowed out. Two of the three other correspondents in Moscow who work for the U.S. press had married Russians and were in the same fix. Despite repeated requests for exit visas for their wives and children, they were always turned down, became virtual prisoners inside Russia's borders...
Last week, as part of the Communist "peace offensive," the U.S. newsmen got some good news. Ambassador "Chip" Bohlen told them that the Communists had finally agreed to grant exit visas to Gilmore's wife and two children, along with the families of two other Americans working for the U.S. in Moscow. Bohlen added that the Russians were also considering granting visas to the families of Gilmore's A.P. partner, Tom Whitney, and U.P.'s Henry Shapiro. Once the families were out of Russia, one of the big pressures that U.S. correspondents have been subject to would...
...Senator Morse was not available . . . I see Senator McCarthy is here tonight [he wasn't]-with his food taster ... I first met the President ten years ago in North Africa, where he was a general. He had some authority then . . ." Said Guest of Honor Eisenhower, just before his exit: "I can't remember having a nicer time than I have had this evening...
...rapid progress last week, Rear Admiral John C. Daniel, chief of the U.N. liaison group, came triumphantly out of the wooden, Red-built conference house at Panmunjom, announcing that the U.N.-Communist agreement on exchange of sick & wounded prisoners had been signed. Photographers persuaded the admiral to perform his exit a second time, waving the agreement in his hand...