Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whoever it was hung up. WMGM complained to the FCC, but admitted that it could not even try to finger the hoaxer. WINS played it cool. Said a station spokesman: "It was definitely not anyone here, although I've seen a lot of people walking around smirking. It sure has livened up things for us. We've been announcing 'Vive la WINS' all day and even giving the time in French...
...first hour and a half of the debate, not a single Deputy had the temerity to question this absurdity or to mention De Gaulle. Then, in a blunt speech reproaching De Gaulle for giving "new life and encouragement" to the insurrection, ex-Premier Pierre Mendes-France leveled his finger at Pflimlin and cried: "We call upon you to condemn openly those insurgent leaders in Algiers." Pflimlin weakly replied: "I do not intend to disassociate the army from the Republic...
Thinner than usual but dressed to the usual hilt (a ring on every finger, gold pins in the lapels of his blue-grey suit, a jeweled pin in his red-speckled tie), octogenarian Negro Cultist Father Divine made one of his rare appearances to supervise a vittles-laden Feast of the Lamb, celebrating the twelfth anniversary of his marriage to his blonde "Virgin Bride," Edna Rose Ritchings, 33. While red-jacketed "Rosebuds" sang "All the Angels Love You, You Are So Beautiful, Lord," fading Father Divine jangled a silver bell to start a typical meal at his Philadelphia headquarters...
...finger-wagging form, Britain's Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, defended himself from the outcry that arose when he invited (as a guest at next July's Lambeth Conference of the world's Anglican bishops) bearded Greek Orthodox Archbishop Makarios, exiled ethnarch of Cyprus. To have omitted Makarios, argued Dr. Fisher, "would inevitably have been interpreted not as an ecclesiastical but as a political action." Makarios said he would try to make it to England, but planned first to visit President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic...
...played the two main pieces with which he won first prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition: Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. 1, Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 3. The conception in both was sweeping, the technique so sure that he rippled off the Rachmaninoff without cuts and with the finger-cracking cadenza that the pianist-composer himself chose not to play. Despite a few nervous smashes in the opening Tchaikovsky, he played with such bravura and nuance that the audience paid him the rare tribute of thunderous applause between movements. After both concertos, as he rushed to embrace Conductor Kondrashin...