Word: lateraling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hearing the news, the Times's Movie-Page Reporter Richard Nason phoned Drury in Washington. Asked Nason: "How much did he pay you?" Drury brushed off his fellow Timesman: "You'll have to ask my agent." Later his agent said Drury's take ran well into six figures...
...denunciation by the Soviet Ambassador to Poland of the Polish press for its admiration of Western literature, films and art. He described in detail both the chilly welcome given to visiting Premier Nikita Khrushchev in July and the tumultuous greeting awarded U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon a week later. A fortnight ago, Rosenthal described Polish Communist Party Leader Gomulka as a "moody, irascible" man whose "leadership has created rifts that could grow." The immediate cause for last week's expulsion appeared to be a story that the Polish government, getting even tougher, had brought a former Stalinist from diplomatic...
...debut at seven, singing Mighty Lak' a Rose in a school assembly program. After that she sang in choirs, school recitals, at weddings and funerals, without ever taking a lesson. When she left school, she turned down a Hollywood offer because she wanted to, become a nun. Later she decided that she lacked a true vocation, won a scholarship to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute singing Butterfly's Un bel di, the only operatic aria she knew. When she auditioned before Conductor Eugene Ormandy. he marveled: "It is impossible for anyone that beautiful to know how to sing...
Colby roiled in confusion when Connecticut-born Philosopher Bixler arrived in 1942, after teaching at Harvard Divinity School. Founded in 1813, Colby had opened on a pleasant site between the quiet Kennebec River and a country road. A century later, the campus lay suffocating between smelly paper mills and a clanking railroad...
AUTO-INSURANCE DISCOUNTS of 15% will be given by Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. on compact cars, topping the 10% discount offered by Allstate. Autos eligible are 1955 and later models priced under $2,300 which do not exceed 3,000 Ibs., 200 in. in length...