Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guest of ample, agile Bessie Braddock, Labor M.P. from Liverpool, Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson turned up for a quiet session of Britain's House of Commons, and on his tour parried questions with the noncommittal skill of a Cabinet minister. What about attacks on boxing? "I wouldn't like to make any comment," said Floyd. "But don't you agree," asked Fight Fan Braddock, "that boxing for every physically fit boy gives him balance, judgment and sportsmanship?" Replied Patterson, after deep thought: "Definitely." Viewing the Thames, Visitor Patterson delivered a judgment on the great grey river that...
Gunther did not include in the book his own footnote to history. When the U.S.'s invasion commander, Major General George Patton, refused to let Eisenhower ashore early, it was Gunther who spotted a quiet Sicilian cove from their destroyer. He told Ike: "General, I can write a story that will make every newspaper in the world tomorrow. The first paragraph will be this: 'The commander in chief of the Allied Forces of Liberation set foot on the soil of occupied Europe for the first time today.'" Says Gunther: "Ike gave me a long, dirty look...
...Syngman Rhee, 83, watched fireworks and a military parade celebrating his birthday; in Manhattan, energetic ex-Senator Herbert Lehman, 80, conceded that "I do have a tendency to get tired if I stay up past 2 a.m."; in Budapest, sad-eyed, flinty Josef Cardinal Mindszenty turned 66, spent a quiet day, his 511th as a refugee in the U.S. legation...
...roomy white stucco house with sweeping lawn and two-car garage, on a quiet street of suburban New Rochelle, 35 minutes from Manhattan, a tall (6 ft. 1½ in.), jowly clergyman was reading to his four-year-old granddaughter Anne. In the kitchen, his wife Hilda was baking a cherry pie. It was a rare domestic interlude, for the figure in black clericals with the silver pectoral cross* is more familiar these days in Washington or London or Africa than in New Rochelle. Dr. Franklin Clark Fry is perhaps the most influential leader of world Protestantism...
...wonderful, difficult years"; his parishioners remember him as the young man who increased the congregation from 200 to 400. In the choir he found "the first and only girl I was ever attracted to-I suppose because she was a strange, offish person, too. She sang soprano solos, was quiet, not especially pretty, and she was going with another fellow at the time. We would go to the opera together. I remember asking permission to kiss her -it was granted, to my surprise." Hilda Drewes and Pastor Fry were engaged in 1926, and married the next year. They have...