Word: rafts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...planned visit to the home of one of their favorite Americans, Mark Twain, in Hannibal, Mo. So taken was Goriaev by Huckleberry Finn's adventures on the Mississippi that he ran away from home at the age of eleven and briefly floated down the Dnieper on a raft. Goriaev, who has drawn the Statue of Liberty wearing policeman's boots and carrying a club marked Racism and Segregation, illustrated Russian editions of both Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer...
...suite. Jack Dempsey, the McGuire Sisters and the cast of Say, Darling wished him well. Hedda Hopper was sorry she couldn't make it. Frank Sinatra, Winchell's current shrine character, reserved three tables for opening night (but failed to show up). The Milton Berles, George Raft, Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams were all there. Thoughtful ex-Gambler Mickey Cohen sent flowers and a personal emissary: "Mickey thought it was for the best he should'na come, Walter." "Yeah," said Walter, "it's just as well...
After a visit to the tomb of Lenin and Stalin in Red Square, Hope cracked: "It wasn't a bad show, but what do they do for an encore?" On shopping at the GUM department store: "The men look like they're wearing George Raft's old suits. The women, of course, are more in style. They've been wearing sack dresses for years." On watching voters in the U.S.S.R.'s one-party election: "Let's hurry back to the hotel and get the first returns." On drinking vodka: "Now I know why they...
...veteran of the Washington beat for 37 years, Political Columnist Thomas L. Stokes, 59, won a Pulitzer Prize (in 1939 for exposing a WPA scandal in Kentucky), a raft of other awards through the decades, and the respect of his colleagues as a skillful reporter who does not let his admitted bias as "an old-fashioned progressive" keep him from playing fair. Last week Atlanta-born Tom Stokes won a rare new tribute. His column, which appears in 105 dailies, has not appeared since Jan. 3. It was a casualty of the illness that sent Stokes to the hospital last...
...Cleveland Museum of Art, long acknowledged a gem of tasteful beauty in its tree-shaded setting overlooking a lagoon, last week opened a $9,000,000 wing that more than doubled its size. The wing was hung with a raft of surprise acquisitions that clearly put Cleveland close behind the U.S.'s Big Three (New York's Metropolitan, Washington's National Gallery, Boston's Fine Arts). On hand to celebrate Cleveland's happy advance were collectors, art dealers and museum directors from as far away as Korea...