Word: friend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Denmark's Hansen, 51, actually came to the U.S. to attend a friend's wedding in Manhattan, traveled on to Washington for a 30-min. White House call and a cornerstone ceremony at the new Danish embassy in Dumbarton Oaks. Hansen made a point of sending a get-well message to John Foster Dulles. Unmentioned, but appreciated by the Secretary of State: Hansen recently was found to have throat cancer, apparently conquered it with an operation last October...
...author, lecturer and China specialist since the 1920s, New York's Edward Hunter is fascinated by words and their meanings, especially as they apply to the conflicts between Communism and the free world. Around 1950 Hunter heard a Chinese friend, talking about the methods of the Red Chinese government, use the phrase hsi nao. Translating it, Hunter introduced a grim word to the cold war vocabulary: "brainwashing." Last week, appearing as a witness before the U.S. Senate's Internal Security Subcommittee, Author (BrainWashing in Red China) Hunter again showed his preoccupation with words, made a sharp point...
...which Tinguely asks for his moving abstractions. But Tinguely has a new gadget, which harnesses one of his machines to a crayon or pen. When a slug is dropped in the slot, the machine traces circles, ellipses and swirls on a piece of paper. A friend is manufacturing the slugs, each marked "Good for One Tinguely." At his next exhibition, visitors will be invited to buy the slugs at perhaps 500 francs apiece. For a mere 5,000 francs more, Tinguely will consent to sign the result...
...gilded age when sables were a princess' best friend, the nation's best place to buy sables was Manhattan's C. G. Gunther's Sons. Founded in 1820 by a German immigrant associated with Fur Trader John Jacob Astor, Gunther's not only combed Siberia for the finest sables, but bid in the London market for the finest ermine, sent its agents across Canada on the lookout for mink. Even men coveted the Gunther's label. Gunther's long operated the only men's fur department in Manhattan, offering coats made...
...school. She tangles with her brother, a brilliant, sexually confused war wreck, who has turned from the complexities of civilized life to the simplicities of horticulture. Author Wilson puts his widow in the temporary toils of an Angry Young Man, the pointy-bearded but pointless son of her best friend. In a savage little vignette Wilson makes clear that the fellow is angry not because he is young, but because he is not really...