Word: gleams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...professional entertainers as Cinemactor Adolphe Menjou, who emceed the show, and ex-Pug Buddy Boer, who crooned: New Hampshire's Senator Charles W. Tobey, who posed in an Uncle Sam hat, with an "I Like Ike" button on his lapel, a raddled drumstick in hand and a campaign gleam...
London's Institute of Contemporary Arts announced an international contest pretty sure to put a gleam in the eye of sculptors everywhere. Thanks to an anonymous donor, the institute said, it will pass out $30,000 in prizes for the best sculpture on the specified subject, "The Unknown Political Prisoner." Entries, due in September, will be sifted by regional juries throughout the world; final judging will be in London. Only snag so far: Professor Vladimir Kemenov of Moscow's Academy of Arts, invited to represent Russia on the panel of nine judges, has neglected to reply...
...both camps assiduously fanned the old question: "Is Ike really a Republican?" Illinois' Paul Douglas last week reported Ike "the overwhelming favorite of the great masses of the American people" and repeated his hope "that he will be the Democratic nominee." Some top Administration Democrats got a wild gleam in their eyes and talked of a "plan." The plan presupposes that Taft will build up an unbeatable lead and Ike's G.O.P. bandwagon will grind to a stop. Then selected Democrats will begin calling for Eisenhower to lead the nation against Taftism. Eventually, Harry Truman will break silence...
...Mossadegh used Washington's National Press Club as a rostrum, and drew as big a crowd as had Clement Attlee. Everyone wanted to see the faint-prone wonder. About all that most got out of it was a glimpse of a man with a Durante nose and a gleam of cunning in his eye. Less than half the crowd stayed through his 40-minute speech in Persian. Those who waited for the translation got only a tired tirade against the British, and one Mossadegh proposal, to wit, that the U.S. should lend him money...
Duveen's new headquarters shows other signs of the times. Now the firm's $10 million collection, heretofore seen only by customers with a million-dollar gleam in their eyes, will be on rotating display downstairs, where anyone with bus fare can come in and look it over. Customers who mean business will still be shown upstairs to velvet-hung rooms where they can look more meaningly...