Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jamaica (music and lyrics by Harold Arlen and E. Y. Harburg; book by Harburg and Fred Saidy) boasts Lena Horne and much that is stylish and charming. Its achievement, to be sure, is more one of atmosphere than of action, of grace than of speed. The humor in Jamaica is covert and glancing; the very hurricanes blow up too fast to be spectacular; even the calypso recalls an island charmer of long...
...Eugene Gifford Grace, life means competition. And in any kind of competition-from the baseball diamond to the steel mill-he likes to lead the team. For 41 of his 81 years. Gene Grace not only captained giant Bethlehem Steel Corp., but was often the industry's most articulate spokesman in its bouts with Big Labor and Government. Last week, seven months after suffering a stroke, Chairman Grace stepped down as chief executive of the company that he had molded into the nation's second-biggest producer of steel, and its biggest shipbuilder...
...Riviera remains to be rented out, but the problem isn't insurmountable. Prospective tenants include Italy, who would make good use of the southern coast. Monaco might well be thrown in as a bargain, Princess Grace could then call herself an Italian movie star--in spirit if not in body...
After dining with friends at one of France's best-known groaning boards, Maxim's in Paris, Monaco's Prince Rainier III, still sporting his summer crop of chin whiskers, and Princess Grace, radiantly pregnant, were all abeam. Grace's second child (all Monaco is praying for a boy) is duer in March. Next stopovers for the Grimaldis: London and then New York City...
...Waldo Emerson pounded out white-hot antislavery editorials, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and John Greenleaf Whittier contributed poetry, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, who had given the Atlantic its name, wrote The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. The Atlantic, long famed for its fiction, has "enjoyed a perpetual state of literary grace," as Professor Frank Luther Mott once noted. When Boston started fading as literary hub of the U.S., the magazine introduced its readers to such diverse talents as Bret Harte and Kipling, Mark Twain and Henry James...