Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unannounced, he showed up a few nights later to catch the American Holiday on Ice show at the Lenin Sports Palace with his son Sergei, as well as First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan and cronies from the Central Committee. Afterward, in a private room at the back of the hall, Khrushchev gave a caviar-and-smoked-salmon party for the cast, scattering bear hugs and backslaps among hearty toasts in brandy. There was no talk of politics...
...youngster ever shows up at the shack that serves as a synagogue. Friday nights and Saturdays, on the Jewish Sabbath, Cantor Kaplan (there is no rabbi) leads prayers for 30 persons, more women than men. Last Yom Kippur, the most important Jewish holiday, 400 worshipers walked to the little house, about half a mile from the paved city center...
...Shaw with five signed lithographs by fast-rising U.S. Abstractionist-in-Paris John Levee, 35. The text accompanying Levee's Images of European Summer (see color) draws on Shaw's own expatriate ramblings, summons up visions of "the sea calm, the sun hot. Everybody lazy and on holiday." Offshore a party on an aircraft carrier makes "the final perfect touch against the violet horizon." Sales to date: eight (which included a signed gouache) at $250; 60 of the regular edition (limited to 140 copies...
...night of St. Jean's Eve, June 23, is the occasion in France of fireworks, bonfires and merrymaking. In bustling Perpignan, a city of 70,000 near the Spanish border, the holiday was celebrated as usual last year. But not everyone was amused. Jean Amiel, 37, who taught English at the local lycée, rushed to quiet his five-year-old daughter when she awoke crying, after youngsters had slipped firecrackers through the letter slot in Amiel's door and they exploded in the hall. He went to the open window, glimpsed five boys and two girls...
...their Roman holiday, Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth and Princess Margaret saw Pope John XXIII in a 20-minute private audience. They conversed in French, but it was later reported that the jovial Pontiff told his royal visitors: "English is the next language I shall learn!" One afternoon, before getting elegant for a dinner party, Margaret ventured forth for cocktails with a new beau. Italians were quick to read budding romance into her frequent dates with tall, retiring Prince Henry of Hesse, 31, a Protestant and a scion of the Italian House of Savoy. Henry, a talented painter...