Word: goings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pianist Gieseking didn't know far enough, as he soon found out. First, he learned that he was only on parole to his manager. Then, while he was resting in his Manhattan hotel room four hours before concert time, the phone rang. He would have to go to the immigration office. There, by his account, he was confronted with "five newspaper articles . . . criticizing me . . . I could not answer immediately, since much of the material I needed was in Europe. I was told that a decision on my case would take four to six weeks. I didn't want...
...last week The Varsity Story had sold some 5,000 copies in Canada (royalties to Toronto). The university was not saying just how many of Callaghan's and other hints had been picked up by wealthy alumni. But if & when Toronto got the money, it would go (together with a $7,000,000 appropriation from the Ontario government) for such things as a men's dormitory, a women's building, a medical research center to be named after Charles H. Best, co-discoverer* of insulin, and the addition to the library that the philosophy professor wanted...
Gehrmann did. Entering the 34-yd. stretch, he went up on his toes like a sprinter, passed Slykhuis with 5 yards to go, broke the tape a foot in front. Time: 4:09.5. Said Gehrmann after he had caught his breath: "I'm sorry my time wasn't better. My pacing was a little off tonight...
...Consciences Demand. At last, the vestrymen decided to do something about the Melishes. They voted 9 to 1 to petition Long Island's Bishop James Pernette De Wolfe "for separation and dissolution of the pastoral relationship . . ." But spry old Rector Melish was not one to go quietly. He wrote to his congregation telling what the vestry had done...
Bankers and foreign traders squawked, arguing that the plan was simply another step in a campaign to eliminate all private interests from ECA business. But ECA took the position that European aid was for Europeans and not for the bankers-and as much of it as possible should therefore go to Europe...