Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian Ambassador to the U.S.; Admiral William D. Leahy; Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr.; President Roosevelt; Charles E. Bohlen, Chief of State Department Division of Eastern European Affairs; James F. Byrnes, OWMR Chief; unidentified; Anthony Eden, British Foreign Minister; Prime Minister Churchill; two unidentified; Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, British Ambassador to Russia...
William Averell Harriman, rich, sports-loving U. S. Ambassador to Russia, finished second in a Moscow diplomatic corps competition: his hens laid fewer eggs than British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr...
Sing Out, Sweet Land! (book by Walter Kerr; produced by the Theater Guild) is a songbook history of American life. Combining folk music with Tin Pan Alley tunes, it warbles its way across the centuries-the voice of a canoeman floating down the Ohio, a chorus raised in an Illinois clearing, a medley of tunes on a Mississippi steamboat, a soldiers' rouse round a Civil War campfire, the guttural throb of Negro blues, the frilly ditties of the Gay Nineties, the brash rhythms of speakeasy jazz...
Hardly another "Oklahoma!", "Sing Out, Sweet Land!" is a handsome, spirited, and highly appealing production in its own right. Walter Kerr's idea is a winning one and two acts of second-rate script writing cannot overshadow the warm American tone...
...four-hour, 14-course lunch with Stalin. Stalin wore his simplest Marshal's uniform-no decorations. Churchill wore his uniform as honorary colonel of a Sussex regiment-four banks of decorations. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov, U.S. Ambassador Averill Harriman, British Ambassador Archibald Clark Kerr were in mufti...