Word: friendly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this letter makes you angry by speaking too plainly, please don't take it out on me. After all, I didn't have a Communist as a an intimate 'girl friend,' didn't contribute money to the Communist party, didn't associate with Communists and employ them in secret Government work or fail to pass security tests. Nor have I lied about the forgoing when questioned thereon. Finally, don't blame me for appointing...
Believe me, my young friend, [said the Water Rat solemnly], there is nothing-absolutely nothing-half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Simply messing . . . Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular...
...thread." She slipped her arm around him and began to swim for the beach. When she was near enough, a fisherman threw her a line. After they were on the sand, Shirley, a Roman Catholic, scooped up some sea water and let it run over the head of her friend (who had never been baptized and belonged to no specific faith). "I baptize thee in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost,"* said Shirley, making the sign of the Cross, and whispered to Albert, "Is that all right...
Married. Julie Andrews, 23, peaches-and-cream-cheeked British star of My Fair Lady and The Boy Friend, whose airy musicomedy elegance showed through both cockney grime and flapper apparel; and Scene Designer Tony Walton, 24, a childhood sweetheart; in Weybridge, England...
Died. Myron C. Taylor, 85, industrialist, philanthropist, representative to the Vatican for Presidents Roosevelt and Truman ; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Ready to retire at 50 from a successful business career as a textile executive, Taylor was launched on a second career by his friend J. P. Morgan, who urged him to go to work for U.S. Steel. He cleared the corporation of a $340 million bonded debt in time to withstand the Depression. Famed for his diplomacy in labor relations, Episcopalian Taylor was appointed F.D.R.'s special envoy to the Vatican in 1939, a post he served...