Word: madness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Dorothy T. Pearse [TIME, Letters, July1] expresses sympathy for the hungry of Europe and grows impatient with delays on the British loan and on food relief, I agree with her. But when she says she feels "a sense of shame at being an American . . ." then I get mad...
...excluding China from the inviting powers. Byrnes called this "a gratuitous insult" to China, but finally agreed to accept a draft of the invitation form previously proposed by the Russians themselves. Molotov then said that he could not now accept even his own draft. Byrnes began to get mad. He got madder when Molotov explained that he would hold up any invitation until the Big Four agreed to rules of procedure binding the 21-nation Conference...
...important Education Ministry, formerly held by the Reds. An ex-professor of criminal law and a newspaper editor with iron nerves, he was unlikely to let the Communists push him around. To illustrate the Stransky calm, friends tell how he took the fall of Paris in 1940. During the mad scramble of flight, he went for a quiet stroll along the Champs-Elysées, where he ran into the well-known Czech pianist, Rudolf Firkusny. Stransky said he had wanted to ask Firkusny's advice on a problem that had been on his mind for a long time...
Like some 200 other European cities, Lucerne had hopefully asked for a Toscanini concert and had been refused in favor of Paris and London. Then Toscanini, mad at the way Italy was faring at the hands of the Big Four, huffily canceled his dates in Paris and London in protest ("I personally am not in a state of mind to conduct [because of my] sadness for unjust political decisions."). Suddenly the city of Lucerne got word that the Maestro was willing to play two concerts there-the first one five days from date. Toscanini had a sentimental memory of Lucerne...
...always bills to pay). Now the Phillies clung happily to a 21-year-old, Philadelphia-born rookie named Del Ennis, who was hitting .315 and was one of the season's likeliest new players. The real hero of the team was sparkplug Second Baseman Emil Verban. He got mad when the St. Louis Cardinals sold him down the river to the Phillies two months ago for $40,000. He promptly began doing things around second base he never suspected he could do-especially when the Phillies played the St. Louis Cardinals...