Word: philipe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came the thoughts of a third party-and the conflicts with congressional diehards continued in 1954. At a Cabinet meeting, when the furor over Republican Senator John Bricker's proposed amendment (to limit the President's treatymaking power) was at its raucous height. Civil Service Commissioner Philip Young facetiously suggested that perhaps a few A-bombs "could be used now to good effect." Says Donovan: "The President took him to task for this. He said sharply that he did not wish to hear any talk of a 'Pride's Purge.' "* Through patience and persuasion (along...
...shoe-machine operator is causing a run on critical superlatives in highbrow London's literary marketplace. "One of the most remarkable first books I have read," wrote Critic Cyril Connolly in the Sunday Times when Colin Wilson's The Outsider was published a month ago. Said Philip Toynbee, writing in the Observer: "The Outsider is an exhaustive and luminously intelligent study of a representative theme of our time . . . truly astounding." Part of the critical hubbub rose from the fact that Author Wilson, just turned 25, shows a staggeringly erudite grasp of the works and lives of Bernard Shaw...
...Philip Graham, president and publisher of the Washington Post. L.H.D...
...gloomy gamblers of the Continent who frequent Monte Carlo's famed Casino are usually content to court fortune with no better equipment than a good-luck charm or an "infallible" system. Three Californians-Jason Lee, 60, Philip Aggie, 37, and Ralph Shaker, 40-were of a more practical stripe. Resolved to beat the American-type craps table at the old Casino, they arrived in Monaco, dropped $35,000 at the table, but returned to the U.S. with a handful of wax impressions of the Casino's dice. A month later, they went back armed for victory...
...turned a jaundiced eye to all this. Hockey was in the air and the freshman six ploughed through its opposition, led by Batchelder and Philip H. Watts. After a mediocre start, the varsity pulled itself together and eked out an overtime victory over Yale, 2 to 1. The Yardlings were not so fortunate, as they were beaten by Yale, 2 to 1, for their only defeat of the season...