Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...couple of days, tried again to squelch the chatter about retiring Dulles. To G.O.P. congressional leaders, meeting at the White House, he passed the word in firm tones: "It is my responsibility." In press conference he praised Senators who (unlike Symington and Humphrey) "have expressed very prayerfully their great hope that he will be spared to go on with his work." By week's end Eisenhower's plain words had wiped out any excuses for confusion: Dulles would not retire unless he declared himself physically unfit...
...prestige with the British electorate; to the Russians, Britain's Socialists, with their distrust of the U.S. and their more experimental approach to the cold war, have more appeal than the Tories. Khrushchev's main interest in the Macmillan visit, obvious except to Whitehall, lay in his hope that it would uncover a split between the U.S. and British governments over Berlin. When he found Macmillan consistently taking the line that the West was unshakably united in the determination to hold its position in Berlin, Khrushchev complained to his companions that Macmillan was "just sitting and saying nothing...
...told Burgess I had long cherished the hope that he was really a double agent and was working for our side," wrote Churchill in the London Evening Standard. "He said, 'If I were doing that I naturally wouldn't tell you or anyone else, but I did work for military intelligence before the war.' " To Churchill, Burgess appeared to be "a lonely and unhappy man who has ruined his life." He now works for a Russian publishing house, says that he had quarreled with his Co-Conspirator MacLean and scarcely ever sees him, and told Churchill...
...Minister and Field Marshal Henrique Baptista Duffles Teixeira Lott, only other visible candidate. This week, with typical political canniness, Quadros planned to board a freighter to Japan (54 days around the Cape of Good Hope) on a trip that will keep him away for three months-enough to avoid excessive pre-election exposure, enough to guarantee him a triumphal welcome when he returns...
...pours. To a very few show folk-Al Jolson, Fanny Brice, Irving Thalberg, Variety Founder Sime Silverman-has gone an uninterrupted outpouring of vocal, tearful affection. This week a new name was added to the roll of comradely love when a clutch of top entertainers, including Bob Hope, Sid Caesar, Rosemary Clooney, Perry Como, Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra, Jack Webb and Betty Grable, performed at union minimum rates ($265 each) in a 90-minute NBC telecast in honor of the late Manie Sacks. The show's title: Some of Manie's Friends...