Word: hanging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stevenson's 70-acre farm at Libertyville has been rented. Its present tenant: Marshall Field Jr., editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, and an old friend.) In the 28-room, brick-and-stone governor's mansion, Stevenson sleeps in a second-floor bedroom; on the walls hang portraits of great-grandfather and grandmother Fell and grandfather Stevenson. (The governor's ex-wife once remarked: "There must be some Japanese in the Stevensons; they worship their ancestors so.") Stevenson works at a long desk in a basement office...
Allied newsmen in Korea, who hang on the words of briefing officers and whose expectations of peace rise & fall daily and sometimes very steeply, pronounced the situation grimmer than at any time since the conferences were resumed in October...
...story, Czech Communist Leader Antonin Zapotocky looks at his portrait on the wall and says: "You're very well off up here, aren't you?" "Yes," answers the picture, "but I don't believe it can last too much longer . . . They will take me down and hang...
Post Editor James Wechsler had long been anxious to hang a picture of Winchell for his readers, but he could not find an occasion to his liking. Winchell supplied one by his attacks on Negro Singer Josephine Baker, after she complained that the Stork Club had refused to serve her (TIME, Nov. 12). When the race-conscious Post took her side, the paper heard that Stork Club Owner Sherman Billingsley had set agents to investigating Post Owner Dorothy Schiff...
Although Nate Corning played a fine game himself in the Crimson nets, and although Harvard showed great fight--especially in the hectic last period--the Tigers were able to turn a couple of breaks into scores, and managed to hang on thereafter...