Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amazed to discover, upon reading your spread on Flower Drum Song, that in those many thousands of words devoted to the evolution of this Broadway success no mention was made of Mr. C. Y. Lee, the author of the book upon which the show was based...
Wilbur K. Jordan announced today his retirement as President of Radcliffe College. His resignation, however, will not become effective until June 30, 1960. Radcliffe has made no mention of possible successors to the President, who has served in his present capacity since...
...Teamsters' three-member Anti-Racketeering Commission: Ohio Insuranceman George H. Bender, sometime Republican Congressman (1939-48; 1951-54) and U.S. Senator (1955-57), memorable to televiewers as the boar-shaped man at the 1952 Republican Convention who made himself conspicuous by ringing a cowbell at every mention of Senator Robert A. Taft's name...
...Nasser had decided at last that he was in jeopardy from the Communists, he was moving cautiously. At week's end there were many rumors but little evidence of Communist arrests in Syria. He carefully made no mention at all of the even touchier situation created by the Communists in Iraq. Nasser's regime signed a contract with a Soviet delegation in Cairo for the building of Nasser's Aswan high dam, and Nasser's propagandists, covering the boss's anxious retreat, put out the naive-sounding line that Arabs must distinguish sharply between...
After V-E day, George wanted to dine with Stalin in Berlin, but Montgomery put his foot down. Monty would not guarantee his safety. But there is probably no truth in the legend (which, of course, an official biographer does not mention) of George's crack about Monty. "Sir," said General Eisenhower, "I have to tell you that I hear Montgomery is after my job." "Relieved to hear it," said George VI. "I thought he wanted mine...