Word: matthews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...short holiday in Garmisch, Germany, NATO Commander General Matthew B. Ridgway, with his wife Penny and four-year-old son Matt Jr., watched the world championship bobsled races. To get into the spirit of the occasion, the general borrowed a pair of skis, got a few pointers from the nearest experts, and took off. Result: a beginner's traditional pratfall picture by an alert photographer...
...second performance with the Boston Symphony for a joint production of the "Saint Matthew Passion" is set for later in the spring, but the exact date has not been released...
...pushing his estimate of Dickens the novelist too boldly that Biographer Johnson finally falls through thin ice. Dickens was not overly sentimental, he insists; the modern age is simply too hardboiled. Echoing Matthew Arnold on Keats, Biographer Johnson says of Dickens: "He is with Shakespeare." But Shakespeare's is the company Dickens rarely keeps. Shakespeare's characters grow; Dickens' characters only have Scroogian turnabouts. Where a Hamlet, a Captain Ahab or an Ivan Karamazov helps the reader to know himself, most of Dickens' fabulous folk reveal only their inimitable selves. They teach little, but, with...
Cold Outside. In Juneau, Alaska, Mrs. Matthew Wilson reported that she had seen neither hide nor hair of her husband since he strolled naked from their home, saying: "Where I'm going, I won't need any clothes...
...Paris, General Matthew B. Ridgway announced that Air Force Brigadier General William Preston Nuckols, 47, briefing officer in Korea for a year of the Panmunjom truce talks, would be the new NATO Public Information Officer...