Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Delay. Until Friday, Bidault clung to the hope of help from his friend John Foster Dulles: perhaps some direct U.S. intervention, perhaps a declaration that the Tonkin delta around Hanoi was vital to the free world and would be defended if necessary by U.S. arms. That afternoon Dienbienphu fell. Overnight, Bidault read Dulles' speech, admitting that "present conditions there do not provide a suitable basis for the U.S. now to participate with its armed forces." It was a tragic day for Georges Bidault. To a sympathetic questioner, he said wearily: "My trumps? When I look at my hand...
Died. Fritzi Scheff, 72, Vienna-born prima donna and the toast of Broadway at the turn of the century; in Manhattan. Leaving the Metropolitan Opera, Soprano Scheff became a popular star overnight singing Kiss Me Again in Broadway's opening of Victor Herbert's Mile. Modiste (1905), earned up to $4,000 a week in such musical plays as The Two Roses, Fatinitza and Boccaccio...
With his new buses, Caesar plans to push Greyhound's fast-growing special services such as charter buses, package express shipments and all-expense tours around the U.S. A fortnight ago, he started his first sleeping service between San Francisco and Chicago, which includes four overnight hotel stops in the fare. Price: $69.40 with a single room, $62.90 in a double room...
Boring & Sound. The pale young man with the donnish air was no overnight success. His speeches-meticulously prepared, subtly reasoned, peppered with quiet wit-bored the House. But the ability to bore is rather well regarded in the House of Commons as a sign of soundness. Rab turned from oratory to committee and administrative work to prove his soundness. He was cautious, he was courteous, he never spoke out of turn, he never spoke unless well prepared. His voice was as clear as his logic. "The bullyboys may make the headlines," said a colleague, "but it is to the young...
...four: the overnight favorite (7-1), Conneyburrow, injured in a fall and destroyed; Dominick's Bar, which dropped dead at the second fence; Legal Joy, which broke its neck at the 13th fence; and Paris-New York, which broke a leg and was destroyed...