Word: graceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until Wednesday a week ago) Mrs. Thompson and Craig Jr. were feeling pretty foresighted about already having had their inoculations and many weeks of Russian-language study from phonograph records. Then at noon Wednesday their several months' grace disappeared in two minutes flat: the phone rang and an official voice told the Thompsons they could have space on the Warren Delano, bound for Constanta in Rumania-if they could report with their baggage and their papers the very next day! (Rumania isn't Russia, but this was the best offer yet, so Mrs. Thompson said okay...
Next week, as he has for many years, the chaplain will intone his special prayer for the Academy: "Almighty God . . . give thy grace to all those to whom the management of its affairs and the instruction of its members are confided...
Hardly had Jack Frye stopped talking when four other airlines spoke out, suddenly filling the air with the promise of fleets of the planes pilots already call "Connie." Pan Am ordered 21 for its transatlantic routes and Pan American-Grace ordered two for its South American routes; American Export Airlines (division of American Airlines) ordered seven; Eastern Air Lines ordered...
...routines are the highlights of the evening. In one charming sequence, he dances with an animated partner in a Disney-like-fairyland. In another, he chooses a pig-tailed eight-year-old to step with in a delightful exhibition of his skill. Whatever he is doing, Kelly's ease, grace, and rhythm make his dancing as much a work of art as that of Anton Dolin...
...Grace Moore's recent spleen on faithless wives of overseas servicemen [TiME, Aug. 6] just barely deserves the dignity of a reply. Nothing is so pitiful as a woman maligning her own sex, and at a time when womanhood should stand together for protection from those who think in little clich...