Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Russian is taught in several private preparatory schools, including Browne and Nichols, Lord said, but this is the first time he has heard of any public high schools considering such a course. Although there has not been a large number of inquiries, Lord thought that they were "straws in the wind...
...despite the clubs, Sam Yorty was the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate. Congressman Yorty was a professional, a mustached Democratic Dewey who fought no-holds-barred and never heard of amateur idealism. Liberals were treated to a campaign in which both candidates accused each other of being soft on subversives. Yorty lost to Thomas Kuchel by half a million votes...
...like a peaceful cow," said one critic, but she won a tumultuous ovation. Meanwhile the Opera management withheld Soprano Callas' fee (rumored close to $2,000). The week's last word belonged to a maid at the Quirinale, who said: "She cannot have lost her voice. I heard her screaming at the waiter...
...world's best-kept secrets. The Met has had the triptych for more than a year, hints that it has not been in Belgium since World War II, gives no hint as to the identity of the seller. Several months ago (long after the fact) Belgian authorities heard rumor of a pending sale, called on the Merode family, which had owned it for two generations, to stop the transaction. When it was pointed out that the altarpiece had been willed to the daughter of Count Guillaume d'Henricourt de Grünne. King Baudouin himself intervened...
...concrete product of the President's diminished prestige was the caucus called for Senate Democrats, who heard Lyndon Johnson switch from the "me-too-maybe" line of the first session of the 85th to a carefully formulated program. Senate Democrats have caucused before, but seldom before a State of the Union address and never with such wide ranging problems under discussion...