Word: marian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chastened Caller. While his enemies in the party apparatus reeled under the mob's hostility, Gomulka quickly began to consolidate his new position. Though he did not yet dare to dismiss Rokossovsky from his other post as Defense Minister, Gomulka installed as Deputy Defense Minister General Marian Spychalski, who in 1951 was jailed along with Gomulka for Titoism...
Holding onto her hat, Contralto Marian Anderson, well-armed with a rich repertory of Negro spirituals, operatic arias and just plain old songs, took off from New York's International Airport at Idlewild for Stockholm, the first stop on an eleven-week concert tour of Europe...
...Atlantic City, before 22,000 rapt spectators, an annual rite was performed. After a select group of American beauties had paraded their assets for all to assay, South Carolina's blonde, blue-eyed Marian Ann McKnight, 19 (assets: 35-23-35; dividend: a singing imitation of Marilyn Monroe), was handed a queenly scepter and crowned Miss America of 1957. After sobbing a moment, but not at the thought that her title will net her close to $75,000, the queen threw her head back and said: "Who would have thought this could happen...
...entertainers. If the State Department approves the exchange, Russia's Bolshoi Theater Ballet may open in Manhattan on New Year's eve, while Moscow on the same night gets a performance by either the New York City Ballet Company, Pianist Vladimir Horowitz, Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, Contralto Marian Anderson or Violinist Jascha Heifetz...
...Died. Marian Griswold Nevins MacDowell, 98, tiny, frail widow of U.S. composer Edward (To a Wild Rose) MacDowell, who established a memorial artists' retreat at Peterborough, N.H. after his death (1908) with funds raised from concerts (she was an accomplished pianist), speeches and friends' donations; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. A gentle, indomitable woman who wore an old-fashioned pompadour and dressed in purple silk and white stockings, Marian MacDowell presided until 1946 over the rustic 600-acre MacDowell Colony, which sheltered 16 Pulitzer Prize winners, including Thornton Wilder, Willa Gather, Aaron Copland, Edwin Arlington Robinson...