Word: persons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frank Pace is excellent presidential timber-well educated, fine background, superior administrative abilities. He has an interest in our Government, is an Anglo-Saxon, and approaches matters the way that type of person always does. Most important of all, he is a bang-up golfer...
...relations with his family, he seems a little too conventionally gay, rationally irritable and distantly intimate. Sunrise at Campobello is most successfully concerned with F.D.R.'s relations to himself. It thus makes possible Ralph Bellamy's extraordinarily effective portrayal, one which achieves not bits of personality but the sense of a person, not a pronouncing of words but a manner of speech. In Bellamy's coping with stretchers, wheelchairs, crutches and braces, in his making himself learn to crawl, in his making something heroic of what is humiliating, there is no trace of tear-jerking vaudevillism...
...form of TV journalism (see below), they took a back seat in reporting the news. When the news was flashed shortly after 10:48 p.m., E.S.T., that the U.S. had launched its first earth satellite, CBS had Murrow himself on camera, chatting with Actor Cyril Ritchard on Person to Person about such weighty questions as "What is the most important thing in the world to you?" Rival NBC, which was luckily televising a discussion of "Missiles and Men" by its own correspondents, broke the big story immediately and ABC cut into a speech by Adlai Stevenson to give its viewers...
...came in person to bargain with her. He promised to repay all the money and drew up the draft of a document creating her Comtesse de Beauregard-she had bought the huge chateau and park near Paris bearing that name. "The duel over," says Author Maurois, "there was a reconciliation upon the field...
...interviewer by an aged servant of Beauregard: "I shall never forget Milady descending the stairs in the Chateau on the tick of seven in a great crinoline and wearing all her pearls. Ah, Monsieur, how beautiful she was! I promise you that she was a most respectable person and fairy-godmother...