Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...closing gavel of the hearings of the Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee, Chairman Lyndon Johnson last week had two prime items to lay before the public. One was the appearance of General Lucius Dubignon Clay, veteran Army engineer, onetime (1947-49) military governor of the U.S. zone in Germany, and longtime close friend of Dwight Eisenhower. The other was a lengthy interim statement written by Senator Johnson and approved by his colleagues that carefully summed up the U.S. defense picture as the committee had found it in 110 days of study...
Filing past out of the chamber, member after member paused to whisper to Thorneycroft, rest a hand on his shoulder or otherwise show their support. Thorneycroft had obviously abandoned neither his hopes of winning his anti-inflationary fight nor his ambitions as a prospective Tory Prime Minister. Last week he advanced both those hopes appreciably. The government carried off the debate by a 62-vote majority, and Peter Thorneycroft voted with his party. But in resigning, Thorneycroft had come close to winning the fight he had lost in the Cabinet. For many of his fellow Tories had voted...
...witness stand was Ray Lawson, 71, who as Canadian consul general in New York from 1953 to 1955 was the prime mover behind Canada House. Ferreting about, the M.P.s wondered why the Canadian Club, long installed in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, had decided, even before construction started, not to take space in Canada House. Lawson could not say-but he did know that the former Liberal government was "very glad" to hear of the club's decision. He added: "I can understand the reasons. The Canadian Club has some very strict racial rules...
...that remain for big art hunters are all tagged, numbered and precisely located. A sudden blank space on the wall of one of Europe's castles, cháteaux or palaces does not go unnoticed for long. Last week word quietly leaked out that what may be the prime catch of the years was quietly bagged last December by Manhattan Financier and Collector Robert Lehman, whose one-collection show at the Louvre's Orangerie last summer was the hit of Paris (TIME, July 1). The painting: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres' masterful portrait, La Princesse de Broglie...
Collector Lehman's new acquisition is considered by some experts to be Ingres' greatest portrait of a woman. But what really makes the purchase a prime coup is that La Princesse is, in all probability, the last great Ingres portrait likely to come on the market...