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Europeans were also filled with misconceptions of U.S. intentions. They looked upon the U.S. as a horn of plenty with the big end pointing in their direction. In Austria and Germany, startled Congressmen ran into posters which implied that the U.S. had already committed itself to the Marshall Plan, and that all Europe had to do was line up with its hand out. Many of the posters, said the Congressmen, were put out through U.S. military government sources. Many Europeans also seemed to believe that the Marshall Plan, with its program of exports, was something devised to save...
Kirkland: le, Snow, Horn; lt, Zukoski, Hoffingof; lg, Thompson, Brett; c, Mezzarian, Richie, Knight; rg, Read, Feeney; rt, Felton, McCarron; re, Eaton, Bixby; qb, Bell, French, Lynch; lhb, McCaffrey, Lamb; rhb, Winters, Rogers; fb, Glynn, Groshong...
...first program. Bach's First Brandenburg Concerto, as rendered by Dr. Koussevitzky, lacks the lightness and intimacy preferred by these familiar with the old Buseh recording; however the lush Boston reading found as much life and meaning in this music as its first performers must have in 1721. The horn and oboe soles, particularly in the irrepressible third minuet trio, were superlative...
...gathered nicknames-the Little Flower, Butch, The Hat, the Little King. He posed for photographs in gas masks, baseball caps, catcher's masks, chef's caps and fireman's hats. During campaign speeches, he used his horn-rimmed spectacles as sword, scepter and backscratcher; he spat on imaginary apples, kicked imaginary footballs and screeched vulgarly at his enemies. He started a weekly radio program, on which he told housewives how to cook spaghetti, and, during the 1945 newspaper strike, read comics to their offspring...
...canvas lay unrolled like a rug on the floor. Pushing up his horn-rimmed spectacles, the auctioneer eyed Christ's Entry into Jerusalem dubiously and wondered out loud whether it would bring $100 or $10,000. "Somebody might want it for a church," he mused hopefully, "and then again a dealer might want to cut it up into handy-size...