Word: johnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Nov. 2 reproduction of Genre Painter John O'Brien Inman's Moonlight Skating in Central Park: there is a dazzling Inman in my collection [see cut]. A bold picture for the time...
...suggesting that Senator John Kennedy will need 761 votes to win the presidential nomination but that Senator Lyndon Johnson will need only 756 [Oct. 26]? Does this result from discrimination or a handicapping system...
...Massachusetts' John Kennedy and Missouri's Stuart Symington, the Democratic Party's two hottest presidential hopefuls, joined a group whose policies and pronouncements are generally somewhat to the port side of their own: the ultra-liberal Democratic Advisory Council. The two new members make D.A.C. participation almost unanimous for presidential aspirants. Among the other members: Adlai Stevenson and Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, California's Governor Edmund ("Pat") Brown and Michigan's Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams. Conspicuously absent: Senator Lyndon Johnson, the Texas entry, who has refused D.A.C. membership and, with other conservative Democrats...
...asked New England Missionary John Eliot in 1647, "are Strawberries sweet and Cranberries sowre?" The reason in those days was that cranberries needed sugar. But progress took care of that, and the cranberry has since nourished into a $45 million-a-year business, graced Thanksgiving tables in sauces and jellies, and even-when its juice is mixed with gin-in a concoction called swampfire. But mixed with Arthur S. (for Sherwood) Flemming, U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, the cranberry last week turned out to be something more powerful: pandemonium...
...world's universities and foundations. Getting little response, Minister Okasha turned to UNESCO for assistance because the cost of preserving the treasures would be "exceptionally great." How great, the world discovered this week from the report of a UNESCO investigating mission, headed by U.S. Archaeologist Dr. John Otis Brew. Abu Simbel and Philae, says the UNESCO report, can be safeguarded by a system of dikes, levees and protective dams at a cost of $64 million. If any more of the 15 major temples and historic sites located in the area to be flooded are also to be preserved, experts...