Word: friend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quite true, said Acheson, that Alger Hiss "became, and he remains, my friend. I do not detract from that when I state that Alger Hiss was not my assistant." It was Donald Hiss, not Alger, who had been his assistant. Said Acheson: "This whole matter of confusion of two men has arisen out of the testimony of my former colleague, Mr. Adolf Berle [TIME, Jan. 17] ... Mr. Berle's memory has gone badly astray...
Winchell's. friend Drew Pearson, a longtime Forrestal enemy, and Pearson's old partner, Robert Allen, joined the chase. Presumably they were aided and abetted by dozens of Washington officeholders who have come to hate Forrestal for his views and his insistence on urging them. They turned their pressure on the White House: the President should demand Forrestal's resignation. When Forrestal did not resign, as they kept predicting that he would, Pearson implied ominously that Forrestal was hanging on to his job so that he could further "the Wall Street conspiracy...
...lived quietly in a great, grey Paris mansion. He was a passionate hunter and a bad shot. He maintained a private game preserve near Paris, but, said a friend last week, he "never went in for displays of wealth. That would not occur to him." In the '30s, the world was swept by a pacifist wave of indignation against the Undershafts and the De Wendels. The clamor against the "merchants of death" was largely justified, but its main effect was to keep the U.S. and Britain from being well enough prepared to prevent World...
...unearthed a new Italian conductor-one who "conducts like I do," which means with precision, drama, warmth and love. He had not known about Guido when he arrived in Italy for a visit last spring. He had slipped quietly in on a rehearsal in Milan, where his friend Violinist Nathan Milstein was rehearsing the Brahms Violin Concerto with the La Scala orchestra, and had been so impressed with the work of its Conductor Cantelli that he came back for a second time, then for the concert. Toscanini decided that Guido had been born to conduct...
...laid his success to his legs as much as anything. "How I have walked," he told a friend ecstatically, "day after day, and all alone...