Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...easy. Eisenhower, unlike many a U.S. author, had not written his story with an eye on the movies. Therefore, without betraying its honest, factual presentation, his book had to be refitted into 26 connected episodes that would make dramatic use of the most valuable war film available. In the process Feldkamp found that he had a full-time research job on his hands. Eisenhower could state a fact or a situation in a sentence, but Feldkamp, in order to pictorialize it, had to know what was going on all over the battlefield-and elsewhere-at the same time. His reading...
...native Washington society) took over. The last of their queens were wealthy Mrs. John R. McLean, a Virginia lady of formidable presence, and her convivial, raucous daughter-in-law, Evalyn Walsh McLean, who died in 1947. Evalyn wore a diamond (the Hope) as big as a tiger's eye, and called men impartially "darlin' boy." At her crowded parties (at the old and new "Friendship"), men had to bring their brains with them; Evalyn delighted in pairing mortal enemies at dinner. Said an old friend, admiringly: "Evalyn had spite...
...started most of his pitches, and he wrote her admiring letters. But when he went to Pensacola to meet her, he discovered that she was not quite his type-she had no money. Also, she weighed 200 Ibs., had wrestler's arms, a terraced chin and the cold eye of a jail matron...
...became editor emeritus. But he still goes to the Guide office every day and keeps a watchful eye on the way things are run by his sons. Editor in chief is "P.B. Jr.," 42, who was a correspondent during World War II, later covered the Bikini atomic tests and the United Nations conference at San Francisco (for which he won the Guide's first'Willkie award). President and business manager is brother Thomas W. ("T. W."), 40. The newspaper's philosophy on race relations is still old P.B.'s own: "I am definitely opposed...
...good for most of the Chantreys. With Rothenstein they agreed that over the past 70 years of Chantrey buying, the Royal Academy selection committees had picked a high percentage of bad pictures and missed a lot of good ones. Wrote a Manchester Guardian Weekly critic: "Once the eye has been thoroughly glazed by the pompous onslaught of indomitable mediocrity, it is fascinating to wander limply through the galleries, no longer resisting ..." In the Spectator, Harold Nicolson suggested that a detailed, illustrated catalogue of the Chantrey purchases should be prepared (in order to keep a record) and the works themselves sent...