Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a concert in Frankfurt, Maestro Leopold Stokowski, guest conductor of the symphony orchestra that ploys under the aegis of the Hessian radio station in West Germany, put on no airs as he graciously received the applause of his listeners. Main reason for his refraining from his customary theatricality: white-maned Conductor Stokowski, 73, also renowned as the estranged husband of Actress-Painter-Poetess Millionheiress Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowska, 31, had banned all pictures of the concert, was unaware that a camera had fixed its evil eye upon...
...supported by concrete buttresses. He was a real expert on concrete, he informed his guides. At home he had been fighting engineers who wanted to use steel, which was heavier and more expensive. ''Of course, you people use concrete out of necessity,'' he added. Signing guest books, Khrushchev grabbed the pen first, then turned to Bulganin. saying: "Here, Nikolai Alexandrovich, sign your name...
Newsmen tried to pump the Democrats' No. 1 eligible bachelor, New Jersey's handsome Governor Robert Meyner, 46, about a recent visitor at his seaside house in Island Beach, N.J. His guest: the Democrats' No. 1 eligible bachelor girl, Soprano-Comedienne Margaret Truman, 31. Far from hinting at romance, Bob Meyner snorted: "I don't publish my guest list...
...months the picture of this guest has existed only in memory, for Dylan Thomas died in Manhattan in the fall of 1953, at 39. But he is still the life of the party...
...though producers sometimes had to lock him in a hotel room to wring a finished script out of him. People loved him as a sort of raffish reproach to the world of respectability, a reprobate innocent. He got away with almost anything. The story goes that as an honored guest for an Oxford poetry society which served only select wines, Thomas asked for a jug of beer at the outset, cheerfully poured each successive vintage wine into the same jug and mixed it up with his teaspoon...