Word: m
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...M. EARLE Charleston...
...effect on his own departure, qualified the statement to indicate that he might stay on. Washington, meanwhile, buzzed about successors for either job. Mentioned: U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Defense Department Comptroller Wilfred McNeil, AEC Chairman John McCone, Dwight Eisenhower's SHAPE Chief of Staff, General Alfred M. Gruenther, president of the American Red Cross...
When Stryguine awoke the next day, he began cursing his guards and the Soviet Union. As his guards tried to silence him, he cried out in English, "I'm not the traitor. It's you fellows who are. Talk in English so everyone here can understand what you are saying!" He screamed to bewildered nurses to call the Burmese police and army, that he needed protection, begged them to "call War Office 130," the telephone of Burmese army intelligence...
...canvases. At week's end a new De Kooning was not to be had for love or money. Shyly backed against a wall as the crowd milled through the gallery, De Kooning was startled and pleased: "There's no way of astonishing anyone any more. I'm selling my own image now. It's being understood. That's the way it's supposed...
...painters, De Kooning believes the image must come all at once or not at all. When his three-year-old daughter Lisbeth put her hands on the wet paint, he left the palm print rather than doctor the surface and destroy the spontaneous feeling. "I'm not trying to be a virtuoso," he explains, "but I have to do it fast. It's not like poker, where you can build to a straight flush or something. It's like throwing dice. I can't save anything...