Word: graces
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Retirement seemed out of the question for 69-year-old Grace Coolidge. Down from Northampton, Mass., with a youngster's snap-eyed enthusiasm, the widow of the 30th President of the U.S. saw the World Series in Boston, looking for all the world like a travel agency ad plugging the good life in New England...
Valpey refused to grace these two little workouts with the name of scrimmage, however, preferring to look on them as, "contact sessions." They were all of that, but the coach points out that statistically no plays in an afternoon, for everyone got in on the act for at least a short period. Even Rocky Stone played for the first time in two weeks...
Handel: The Faithful Shepherd Suite (National Symphony Orchestra, Hans Kindler conducting; Victor, 4 sides). Conductor Kindler misses much of the warmth and grace of this fine music. Recording: fair...
Socialist Worker: for President, Farrell Dobbs, 41, onetime organizer for the A.F.L. Teamsters' Union; for Vice President, Dr. Grace Carlson, 41, onetime assistant professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota and the wife of a St. Paul lawyer. A Trotskyist group organized in 1928 when its leaders were expelled from the Communist Party, it is running a presidential ticket for the first time. In 1941, Dobbs, Mrs. Carlson and 16 other party members were convicted and sent to jail for conspiring to advocate the overthrow of the Government. They do not really advocate such rebellion, says Mrs. Carlson...
...cultivated Peiping gentleman cherishes three things in his quiet walled courtyard: a peng (broad overhead matting) for shade, a goldfish pool for the cool grace of its inmates, and a pomegranate tree for its fruit. With these he can free his mind from such pressing disorders as the occasional boom of cannon outside the town and the runaway inflation inside...