Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Many books no longer sit on shelves, waiting to be read. Nowadays, books -as well as plays and poems-speak out loud. For a survey of the latest of this sort, see BOOKS, The Spoken Word...
...baked an apple pie; daughter "Tricia" had made paper nut holders shaped like Pilgrims' hats. Daughter Julie had worked all morning making place cards of yellow paper, taken from the work pads in her father's den, brightly colored with crayon. The Vice President's read: "Be Strong Be Wise Be Thoughtful Be Kind." After dinner, Nixon and U.S. Attorney General Rogers watched football on television (Texas 9, Texas A. & M. 7). Late that afternoon, returning from a walk down Forest Lane, Tricia wanted to play basketball, hunted around until she found a soccer ball given Nixon...
...seven hours while they were being photographed, and had them back safe in the morning. That, Costantini did admit, "was a bad moment," but it had a telling effect on Fascist policy. After that. Benito Mussolini's breakfasts were made pleasanter by the fact that he could read reports from Whitehall to Rome often before British Ambassador Sir Eric Drummond himself had seen them...
...Gene, he is introspective and quietly intense. His long (6 ft. 2 in.), lean frame is close enough to the gangling scarecrow that was the young Thomas Wolfe, and he still looks like a teenager. Remembers Tony: "I was a kid in high school when I first started to read Wolfe, and right away I identified myself with Gene...
Robert Frost (Caedmon) proves a happy exception to the rule that poets cannot read their own works as well as actors. Frost's cracked voice often sounds like that of the first progenitor of mankind, and his lucid verse sings of subjects appropriate to that early time - the whisper of a scythe in grass, the stumbling of a spindle-legged calf, the rains of autumn...