Word: gilberts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Taft watched the honor guard carry out the casket. She had known very well the political Taft, a figure so often in contrast to the personal Taft: one argumentative, impatient with slow minds, the other amiable and tolerant; one stiff-seeming and standoffish, the other resonantly singing airs from Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, devoted to his four sons, playing with his grandchildren, who laughingly called him "the Gop." There had been contrast and sometimes conflict between the two tafts. She had not wanted him to campaign for the presidency in 1952; if he had won, she would have been deprived...
Diplomacy in Israel last week had a sort of Gilbert & Sullivan air about it. The Foreign Ministry was in Jerusalem, the ambassadors were in Tel Aviv, and neither side would visit the other. If Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett wanted to impart important information to Britain or the U.S., he bypassed their emissaries 40 miles away and sent word halfway around the world to his ambassadors to go see the Foreign Office or the State Department. The only direct, official link between the foreign minister and the diplomats was a lone assistant protocol officer left behind in Tel Aviv...
...Soldier Douglas MacArthur, the job of presiding over the annual meeting of Remington Rand in Buffalo, N.Y. last week was his first such assignment since becoming chairman of the board last July. MacArthur soon found his position under fire from a brash stockholder named Lewis D. Gilbert, who claimed to represent 3,800 shares, and makes a business of heckling at annual meetings (TIME...
Douglas Auchincloss, Louis Banks, Bruce Barton, Jr., Gilbert Cant, Edwin Copp3, Alexander Eliot, Frank Gibney, Max Gissen, Frederick Gruin, Roger S. Hewlett, James C. Keogh, Louis Kronenberger, Jonathan Norton Leonard, Robert Manning, William Miller. Paul O'Neill, Carl Solberg, Walter Stockly...
...cover picture is a reproduction of part of Gilbert Stuart's famous painting of George Washington known as the Athenaeum portrait. It is owned by the Boston Athenaeum and is on permanent exhibition at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. (Stuart did one Washington portrait in 1794, but destroyed it. He felt that Washington's false teeth distorted his face, and Washington refused to remove them while sitting. A second portrait was done on commission from Senator William Bingham, who presented it to the Marquess of Lansdowne...