Word: passione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Summoning newsmen for his first press conference in two years, Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., who has a passion for anonymity, announced his resignation from the job that he has held since Ike came into the White House. Reason: a desire to improve family fortunes by returning to private law practice. Successor: close friend and No. 1 aide, Deputy Attorney General William Pierce Rogers, who at 44 will be the youngest member of the Cabinet. It was the third major change in the Eisenhower Cabinet in three months (others: Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson for George Humphrey, Defense Secretary Neil McElroy...
From the Social Register. The men responsible for the American Opera Society's consistent success are Conductor Gamson, 29, and his cousin, Director Allen Sven Oxenburg, 30. When they were both students at the Juilliard School of Music, they developed a passion for Renaissance music, decided it ought to be played as it was originally in the homes of the rich. Founders Gamson and Oxenburg achieved their place in the sun through awnings. "Mother," Gamson explains, "is in awnings-the Port Chester [N.Y.] Shade & Awning Co.-and since they are very expensive awnings only people with money buy them...
...were nearly as good as student drama can produce. The enormous Shakespearean bluster and kingly extravagance that so rarely come across in a younger actor are perfectly mastered by Mark Mirsky as the king. He is able to convey this extravagant emotion with a quality of real virility and passion that does not fall short of excellence...
...outward color from snatches of song or the interplay of street voices. With the performers-particularly George Brenlin as Sean and Aline MacMahon as the mother-providing a resonant voice box, I Knock at the Door wisely puts adroit storytelling ahead of theatrical effect. If four walls and a passion can make a good play, almost as much can be had from six chairs and a prose style; and an ounce of Cavendish cut-plug can be worth a pound of routine theatrics...
...Aniline stock to the public. U.S. lower courts and a Federal Court of Appeals turned down Interhandel's plea for a return of the stock. The loss in court was largely the Swiss government's own fault; its stiff banking laws, reflecting the Swiss financier's passion for secrecy, prevented Interhandel from opening its books to produce evidence that it was not enemy-dominated. Last year the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review the ruling. Even though the Interhandel plaintiffs have again appealed to the 'high court for review and other suits by some Interhandel stockholders...