Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan, where he is wielding a guest baton at Lewisohn Stadium, San Francisco's French-born Conductor Pierre Monteux decided it was high time to explain the discrepancy between his white moustache and black hair and to deny again the rumor that his hair is dyed. Said he: "My moustache is white from kissing the girls. But my hair is true black. Anyone is welcome to come with alcohol, with shampoo, with anything, to wash my hair and prove...
Last week, escorted by their two chaperons, the seven boys and four girls took off from Manhattan by air for Bombay. For the next two months they will visit universities and live in student hostels at Poona, Madras, Mysore and Travancore. There they will explain U.S. democracy to their Indian colleagues. "Some of us will soon have to do military service," said Mormon David Lund, 21 (who won $120 on a radio quiz show to help finance his trip). "It struck us that here we are ready to go to Korea and fight, but that right...
...became surer of himself, Rhee became more magnanimous. He conceded that previously he had been too busy to explain his case and forgave the U.S. and the U.N. for their earlier notes of protest. He agreed to let the Voice of America resume broadcasting. He even denounced the press censorship which had been operating for three weeks. Said Rhee innocently: "Such practices, if they exist, must be abolished immediately...
...When a Man Is in a Battle." Eisenhower's hands were red and swollen from shaking hands with delegates. That was his main task: to meet delegates, explain himself and his ideas. In one week Ike talked personally to nearly 500 delegates from 19 states. No sooner had the general and Mamie returned from Abilene to New York than the delegates began arriving. All day for four days, a Negro porter pulled open the heavy, iron-grilled door of Eisenhower's residence on Morningside Heights, near Columbia University. On the first day it was Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut...
...Child Center at Washington's Catholic University. Father James H. VanderVeldt, a Dutch Franciscan and a Catholic University professor, formerly taught psychology in Rome; in 1931 he opened the church's first experimental-psychology laboratory there. In Psychiatry and Catholicism (McGraw-Hill; $6), the authors try to explain each to the other. With a preface by Washington's Archbishop Patrick A. O'Boyle, their book is the most authoritative and, in a guarded way, the friendliest Catholic statement about psychiatry to appear...