Word: persons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vatican, presented Pope Pius XII with 1957's George Washington Carver Memorial Institute Gold Award for the pontiff's "outstanding contribution to the betterment of race relations and human welfare." (1956 winner: D wight D. Eisenhower.) Said His Holiness: "It is not to our humble person this award is directed, but to truth and charity, whose defense is our mission...
That night Investigator Schwartz came churning up to the office he had kept in a small stucco building across from the new House Office Building. By that time, the subcommittee had a guard on the door, in the person of Staffer Stephen Angland, to prevent Schwartz from taking any more of its property. Schwartz raised his arms above his head, turned to newsmen and cried: "These newspapermen are witnesses that I am taking only my coat, scarf and hat. May I take my wife's photograph from my desk, or this chocolate bar, which is a present...
...come in peace." In Ceylon, which has been busily ejecting Britain from its old military bases, even Macmillan was amazed at the warmth of his welcome from crowds that lined the streets as he passed. Between speeches in Australia, the visitor shed his necktie and distributed the steaks in person at a Queensland sheep-station barbecue. In Melbourne he went out of his way to shake hands with policemen, housewives, schoolchildren and members of his honor guard. "A triumph," cried London's Spectator. "He is not known to have put a foot wrong, to have hurt any feelings...
...FIRST PERSON PLURAL (249 pp.)-Dagmar Godowsky-Viking...
...First Person Plural Dagmar, now 58, presents a jaunty flashback to the splendiferous silent days "when money was thrown to the winds [but] always landed right back in the box office." Publicity departments "[made] us all creatures of fantasy" so that Theda Bara tried to live up to her studio's statement that "her coming was prophesied on the Nile in the ancient days when Egyptians lived there." Margaret Livingston served a formal tea to her cat every day at 4 ("Ask Paul Whiteman. who later married her"), while Nazimova was the only member of the "nobility of Bedlam...