Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enjoyed your Aug. 18 story and picture of the bridge hand involving Charles Goren...
...This state can't secede from the Union," said he. But the moment the federal courts hand down "a final, unappealable, operating order" to integrate the state's public schools, he intends to invoke Virginia's new state laws of "massive resistance," closing public schools, transferring students, state funds to new private schools, etc. Said Almond: "There's no such thing as limited integration. It's all integration-open the door and let us in, we'll do the rest and destroy you as rapidly as we can in the administrative processes of education...
...scandal-smeared Teamsters Union boasts no handsomer showpiece than Harold Gibbons, 48, international vice president and President Jimmy Hoffa's left-hand man. He has been to college, lectured at Harvard. A slim, fit-looking man. he dresses in dignified executive grey, parades a lofty moral code: "Business ethics aren't good enough for trade unions." But in just two days last week, Arkansas' John McClellan's Senate labor-rackets investigating committee stripped away the veneer, exposed Egghead Gibbons as blood brother to the purple-jawed hoods and goons who have filed before the committee...
...Whitman cantata Toward the Unknown Region was performed (1907), did he attract any real attention; by then he was already six years a Mus.D. from Cambridge. He wrote his first ballet (Old King Cole] at 51, his first film score (49th Parallel) at 68. Ever eager to try his hand at something new, he surprised Harmonica Virtuoso Larry Adler with a Romance for Harmonica with orchestral accompaniment. By then Composer Williams was 79. At 80, two years a widower, he married for the second time-his secretary. A year later he listened to the first performance of his pawky Concerto...
...time was running one of the greatest picturemaking factories in all Europe, and most of the work was carried out by Rubens' apprentices. But, notes Director Cheek, "there's no doubt about our sketch. Its proven pedigree goes back to the moment it left Rubens' hand, which is more than we could say of the finished painting, even if it exists...