Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Massachusetts and New York Bar Associations voted against the loyalty oath, Freund pointed out. Besides this, a group of 26 lawyers, among them Grenvlle Clark '03, sent a letter to the Association asking that the oath be thrown out. "The House of Delegates saw fit to disregard this letter," said Freund...
...Loyalty Review Board, which has often tried to fire an employee for disloyalty, only to have the suspect throw up a fog of doubt and win reinstatement. Last week the Loyalty Board asked the President for permission to cut through the fog by tightening its rules to fit World War II standards. Instead of having to prove "reasonable grounds" of disloyalty, "it wanted to shift the emphasis and dismiss any employee when there was "reasonable doubt" that he was above suspicion. President Truman referred the board's request to his new Commission on Internal Security and Individual Rights (TIME...
...Though national arsenals produce plenty of machine guns, Mauser rifles and revolvers, they are tooled to turn out only about a dozen 60-mm. and 105-mm. guns a month. For heavy artillery, the army relies on a jumble of obsolete German, French and Italian guns; finding shells to fit the odd-sized barrels is a head-splitting problem...
Like many an only child, Margaret could produce a serviceable tantrum herself if the occasion warranted. Once when her parents were about to go visiting, leaving her behind, Margaret flung herself into a crying fit. Harry and Bess were firm, firmly departed. "As soon as they were out of sight," says Margaret, "I promptly turned off the weeps." Generally, her parents were more amenable. "I never bawled out Margaret but once in my life," the President confesses, without specifying the cause...
...larger, pianoforte work, Russell A. Ames demonstrated a complete familiarity with Mozart, maintaining throughout the delicacy and grace of this early concerto. Particularly enjoyable was the sparkling rondo section the cadenza of which was written for the occasion by Mr. Perry. Both here and elsewhere Perry's cadenzas fit the spirit of the movement so that it was difficult to tell where Mozart ended and Perry began. To low point of the evening was the downright sloppy performance of the Divertimento in C Major for the fantastic combination of flutes, trumpets, and drums. Only the poker-faced comedy...