Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...records of two counties in his circuit. From his bench in Montgomery, he threatened to throw any "federal police'' who came around into jail. Even after Federal Judge Johnson,directly ordered him to permit examination of the voting records. Wallace refused, instead turned them over to county grand juries he had hurriedly called. (The grand juries, in turn, later bowed before the Johnson order to make the records available to the Civil Rights Commission.) "I have no apologies for any action," Wallace said. "I am ready to face any consequences I may have to bear...
...phone about a Masonic lodge meeting in Louisburg, Kans. (pop. 677). a Kansas City Starman perked up slightly when told that a jut-chinned visitor named Harry S. Truman had been present. "You know,'' said the caller, thoughtfully clarifying his report, ''he is the former Grand Master of the Masonic Lodge in Missouri...
Chiefly because they were both schooled in "the sonority of the grand tradition," they find that their general approach to music is remarkably similar. Even so, they have problems. "Please, Paul," cries Demus when he is not getting enough pedal, "I'm starving." Occasionally, they get their signals crossed: once, each waited "for a terrible moment" for the other to make a solo entrance, finally came in together. But such lapses are rare, and none but the sharpest critical ears have managed to detect them. The reason, Badura-Skoda points out, is that most of the music they play...
...Grand Old Actor. The essence of history is hindsight, and it is difficult to read Schlesinger's account of labor's rise, e.g., the bitter, bloody Teamsters strike in Minneapolis, without reflecting on the monstrous extremes of power which the downtrodden of yesterday have reached. A future historian, not so solid as Schlesinger on the do-gooding glamour of it all. may yet weigh the memorable reforms accomplished by the New Deal against its ominous drive toward the welfare state...
...most fascinated by the President were also among the most acute. Said Hugh Johnson: "[He succeeded] not as a master of planning or knowledge, but as a master of dexterity." And Artist Peggy Bacon, in an ironic comment on his look, said: "Clever as hell but so innocent . . . a grand old actor...