Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head in any legislative dark alley." "Well done, thou good and faithful servant, but go ahead and do some more," sang Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley. "No greater patriot ever served his country," defiantly barked Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey. Tennessee's Albert Gore added he had heard it proclaimed that "when Bill Knowland takes a stand, he stands as if his feet were in concrete." New Hampshire's Styles Bridges was sobered by an obvious thought: "Let us not talk about Bill as though he were no longer our colleague. Instead let us hail the fact that...
...also into the royal government and army, and it would be able to establish workers', students' and women's movements throughout the entire country. Sighed a U.S. observer: "The Royal Government of Laos is about the only government left in the world which hasn't heard of the classic Communist maneuver of conquest by truce negotiation...
...Court of St. James's, at the Long Island estate of his sister, Joan Whitney Payson, co-owner with Whitney of the famed Greentree Stable. Next day, in a Manhattan hospital recovering from gastric ulcer surgery, the diplomat-to-be's wife, Betsey Gushing Whitney, heard a special tape recording of the tributes paid her husband at the dinner. Among the notable banquet guests: CBS Board Chairman William S. Paley and high-styled Barbara Gushing Paley, Long Island Newsday Publisher Alicia Patterson, Broadway Producer Richard Halliday and his musicomedienne wife Mary Martin, retiring G.O.P. National Committee Chairman Leonard...
...dinner, "rollicking, adventurous" Larry Rue, as the Trib called him, received a $500 award from the Trib and provided the only deprecatory note. He was quoted as saying that "he had often heard the remark: 'You're all right, but it's too bad you work for the Chicago Tribune!'" Explained the Trib: "He always puts such people in their place by saying, 'The Tribune never asked me to work for it. I asked the Tribune. I am proud to work for the Tribune because I believe...
Thirty years later, Dixon's influence on squash in the University is still strong. In 1951, he heard that Coach Jack Barnaby had an unusually strong team which he wanted to take to the Nationals. Dixon got in touch with a few other graduates, and raised sufficient funds to send the players. His support was well rewarded when the varsity, led by Charlie Ufford, won the team title...