Word: noted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...staff sheepishly invited the press in. The Secretary was away in the country, but an aide read a statement from him. He had not read the article, nor had he signed or even seen the letter. The letter had been written in his office as a routine thank-you note for an advance page proof of the article, and signed with Benson's name by an assistant who is authorized to handle run-of-the-mill mail. "But," said Benson, "as Secretary of Agriculture, I must take the responsibility for this, and I so do. Of course, the article...
...MURROW: Good evening. This is See It Now . . . Tonight, "The Farm ProblemA Crisis of Abundance." This is the Secretary of Agriculture, Ezra Taft Benson [camera swings to a bespectacled Mr. Benson'], who is ... going to sit here and watch this program with us and take an occasional note...
...next 45 minutes through farms and storage bins around the nation, through the giant stockpiles of grain stored in Liberty ships, finally catches youngsters in Washington singing America the Beautiful. Then it comes back to the grim visage of Secretary Benson, who has indeed been taking an occasional note...
...tremulous uncertainties of 1949, when small nations who had seen Czechoslovakia go under were wondering "who's next?"-those days, as one NATO official recalled last week, "when you could feel a tremor go around the council table every time one of the smaller nations received a Soviet note, and NATO, since we had no effective military organization, seemed more like a source of trouble than of strength...
...program was almost all Italian arias songs. The only composer of the German school represented was Mozart, and he by an Italian aria from The Marriage of Figaro. The most successful song was Bellini's Dolente Immagine, in which Tebaldi lingered over every vowel, almost caressing the notes with her voice. Another highlight was the magnificent Ave Maria from Verdi's Otello, which despite one shrill phrase was memorable for a ravishing final high note in mezza-voce. The audience went wild, and called Tebaldi back for three Puccini arias as encores. She didn't mind the tiring program...