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LIBERATION. In Paris last week, John Foster Dulles brought the NATO Council meeting to rapt attention with the statement that the West must never accept the continued enslavement of captive peoples living under Communist rule, and must insist on discussing liberation at the Big Four conference. Dulles has by no means abandoned his liberation policy, although he stressed that he did not think that the West should attempt liberation by armed force from outside. The Austrian treaty,* in a very real sense, liberated an area of Europe. This example might have a profound effect in making Austria's satellite...
Artist Malskat was delighted when he heard visiting experts point to "the magic eye of yonder prophet," refrained from pointing out: "Yonder prophet was my father, a Königsberg secondhand clothing dealer." Malskat watched visitors gaze in rapt concentration at "the peaceful lines in the face of the old Gothic King," unaware that they were actually looking at Malskat's portrait of Rasputin. "I learned a lot of things about my art," Malskat told the court. A student, basing her doctor's thesis on the murals, wrote: "The splendid figure of Mary bears the brush marks...
Since Vogue's founder, Arthur Turnure, had announced that the magazine's "definite object is the establishment of a dignified, authentic journal of society, fashion, and the ceremonial side of life," Vogue covered Manhattan's glittering social life with rapt attention. Thus the big story of 1895 was the marriage between Consuelo Vanderbilt and the young Duke of Marlborough. For its readers, Vogue carefully described the Vanderbilt trousseau: "The markings consist of the name 'Consuelo' embroidered on the nightgowns, chemises and corset covers on the left side, while on the drawers it adorns the left...
Fortunately for radiomen's peace of mind, the show is recorded, and the rapt studio audience thunderously liked whichever way Mahalia sang a song. She has a surge, vitality and emotional genuineness that crackles across her listeners like electricity. When the audience began cheering and stamping, Mahalia warned them: "Don't you start that or we'd tear this studio apart. You got to remember, we're not in church...
Wearing a grey toupee and a brace on his back, Taylor, with his 19-year-old son, Arod, went from house to house in a state where houses are far apart. He explained his brace to rapt audiences. Six years of sitting in a Senate seat had caused partial collapse of his backbone. Said Glen: "I gave my all for you people, sitting there in Washington. But now I've got a wonderful brace. And in the Senate the man who works the hardest is the one who does the most sitting. With this brace, I can outsit them...