Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowded sanctuary of Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church on staid, tree-lined Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. last week, a pro-segregation clergyman rose and heralded the defeat of his faction in singular language. Said the Rev. Alton J. Shirey: "You flattened us like a steam roller yesterday. Let's not cut the puppy's tail off an inch at a time...
...Russians changed their minds about her again? As in Tito's case, her fall from grace had all been a mis take, the Russians had explained, perpetrated by Soviet Police Chief Lavrenty Beria. Now that Beria was executed, the Russians were correcting their error. When a reporter asked if she feared being arrested again, she replied confidently: "From the amount of scandal it caused through the rest of the world, I don't think they will do that again." Was she angry about the arrest? Oh no, she answered. "Injustices occur everywhere." If the State Department grants...
...Grace of God. In the furor Cutter competitors, taking the view that but for the grace of God it might have been they, rallied to the embattled firm. Winthrop-Stearns's President Theodore Klumpp wired: THROUGH YOUR UNEXCELLED PRESTIGE AND REPUTATION I AM CERTAIN IT WILL WORK OUT ALL RIGHT...
...Dinner Party, this leisurely, secure world is chronicled with grace and unobtrusive humor by a practicing resident. Gretchen Finletter's credentials: she is a descendant of James G. Elaine, a daughter of famed Conductor Walter Damrosch, the wife of lawyer and onetime Secretary of the Air Force Thomas K. Finletter of Manhattan and Bar Harbor, Me. Her heroine is terrified by the very fashionable and the very bright, but Author Finletter is both bright and fashionable. She has written a scattering of plays, and a book of memoirs. Once, for a charity show, she wrote a play called...
...Lewis A. Lapham, 46, son of onetime San Francisco Mayor Roger Lapham (TIME, July 15, 1946), moved up from executive vice president to president of W. R. Grace & Co.'s shipping subsidiary, Grace Line. Lapham succeeds Cassius C. Mallory, 64, who stepped up to the Grace Line board chairmanship vacated by W. R. Grace & Co. President J. Peter Grace Jr. (Grace gave up the title to free himself for the diversified operations of the parent company.) Lapham comes by shipping naturally: his grandfather was co-founder of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Co., his father was onetime president and board...