Word: populars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last year nailed down a top place in Ike's regard. As Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, hardworking, soft-selling Dillon earned a major share of the credit for steering reciprocal trade and foreign aid through a bullheadedly balky Congress. Perhaps the most popular of all-State Department officials on Capitol Hill, Dillon is especially friendly with Arkansas Democrat William Fulbright, new chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...Japanese fishing boats within 60 miles of the Korean coast. He refused to take Japan's Koreans back into South Korea. Getting nowhere with Rhee, both Fujiyama and Premier Nobusuke Kishi reckoned that any move to get rid of Japan's "Korean residents'" would be popular with Japanese voters...
...year-old Virginia Pleasants, an Ohio-born graduate of the Cincinnati College of Music, was a modest and unassuming concert pianist. Her careful, reflective playing of 18th century music was well received in Europe, but Pianist Pleasants' lack of temperament and color made her unsuited to the more popular romantics. Then her husband played a hunch. Henry Pleasants, onetime music critic for the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin and since 1952 a Foreign Service officer in Austria and Germany, thought that Virginia's real forte might be the harpsichord, which lacks dynamic range (it sounds almost the same whether whacked...
Back in the 19303, Thomas Hart Benton boasted that his pictures-like those of his fellow Midwesterners Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry-were "illustrative, storytelling and popular in content, or so intended." Cocky, hot-tempered and unruly, Tom Benton talked loud and stood proud, and his fame was solid. But as a new generation's vibrant distortions and vivid abstractions transfigured the U.S. art world, museum directors began to shuffle his canvases into cellar crypts, and his name vanished from the critics' scripts. Benton did not help his cause by denning a museum director as "a pretty...
Died. Wallace Irwin, 83, popular humorist of a generation ago, syndicated newspaper columnist and magazine writer, creator of Hashimura Togo and his Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy, light versifier (The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum), novelist (Seed of the Sun, Lew Tyler's Wives); in Southern Pines...