Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...again on a western tour which Matusow made as a third-string campaigner for McCarthy-approved candidates, had been promptly picked up and spread by Rumormongers Walter Winchell and Joe McCarthy. Last week Matusow said that the charge originated around Labor Day of 1952, when he was a McCarthy guest in Milwaukee's Schroeder Hotel. McCarthy, who is sensitive in odd places, was annoyed, Matusow recalled, because TIME had said that Joe served warm martinis (TIME, Sept. 8, 1952). Matusow-"just to show off"-made his statement about TIME and, for good measure, the New York Times. McCarthy, says...
...international financier-and he got away with it because highly placed people were impressed by his spending and his line. After he had been repeatedly exposed in court for shady dealings and declared non grata in France, he was, on the eve of his wedding in 1941, a guest at the White House of President Franklin Roosevelt...
...token of the new uneasiness, the British invited another significant guest to Malaya: General Phao Sriyanondh, the silver-haired police chief of Thailand. The British gave General Phao a helicopter tour of the defenses, and persuaded him to help work out a "general pattern of operations" on the narrow Kra Isthmus, north of the Malaya-Thailand border. The British have evidence that the Communists are training new jungle forces in a safe redoubt across the Thai border. "We will have to be more careful about our future," agreed Thailand's tough General Phao...
Houston's symphonic society. Word got around that Kurtz was considered good, but not great, and he received his notice. Guest conductors came for frank appraisal, and went, until Hungary's Ferenc Fricsay (pronounced free-cheye) appeared and led a stormy performance of Bartok that had the audience stamping approval. He won the contract hands down, but now he in turn is in trouble with President Hogg. Fricsay, who since 1948 had built Berlin's RIAS Orchestra into a first-rate ensemble, talked of grandiose plans for the future of the Houston Symphony...
...WGBH-TV schedule. Several hundred faculty members have spoken on WGBH-FM in the past few years, and many more will soon appear on video. Professor Arthur E. Sutherland is currently organizing a weekly series to be entitled 'Life in Law." Although this program will rely mainly on lawyers, guest scholars from many fields will discuss such problems as segregation, penal reforms, and labor unions...