Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Composer Dmitri Shostakovich. He came to New York to attend the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace (see below). A symbol of the harshness of the police state, he spoke like a Communist politician and acted as though he were impelled by hidden clock work rather than the mind which had composed resounding music...
...have sompin to keep your mind on when you're up here crankin," says Jimmy Dyke, who has been coming up to the shack to wind the Mem Hall clock every week for the last 18 years...
With this information in mind, he will make a number of specific recommendations to Reynolds and Heaman "sometime within the next few weeks." There will be no rush, he says, because there is nothing fundamentally wrong with the food...
...unjustified attacks on the Conference--picketing by veterans' groups, State Department refusal of visas to many delegates, and generally hostile press coverage--will necessarily obscure any valid reasons that Schlesinger may have had for opposing the meetings, and will certainly lump him with these other forces in the public mind. It is his mistake to have made his objections under the aegis of such a false front as the Americans for Intellectual Freedom. This group, hastily and temporarily organized, scheduled its "counter-rally" on the same evening as the climax of the Conference--an obvious and ineffective way of hitting...
...Criminal Mind. In Detroit, police warned citizens to watch their step: someone had stolen seventeen 150-lb. manhole covers...