Word: reads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read with interest your account of the trip down through Central America by the two representatives of the American Automobile Association [May 18]. I really felt sorry for those two poor men having such a hard time...
...issue, TIME ran a reproduction of De Kooning standing in front of one of his recent paintings, the caption reading: "De Kooning and Merritt Parkway." In the plate, TIME somehow expanded the original painting by adding a foot or more to its top and sides. Under the circumstances the caption might have read: "De Kooning and Merritt Parkway Extension...
...wife. As the Army band played Hark, Hark, My Soul, servicemen from the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard lifted the coffin from the caisson and carried it to the grave. The Rev. Roswell P. Barnes, U.S. secretary of the World Council of Churches, read the burial service: "I am the resurrection and the life . . . Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust ..." Nineteen times, saluting cannon fire boomed and echoed. Then three sharp rifle volleys sounded, and the last, sad farewell of Taps...
...Baileys lost all their money in 1939 producing a show that used Hollywood cheesecake to whet the Eastern appetite, quickly suffered an Occidental death. Interned by the Japanese during World War II, Bill, then in his mid-50s, put the years of imprisonment to good use: he learned to read and write, something he had never found time to accomplish before...
...where 100 feet of bookshelves are being installed at their request, the Bevingtons will spend the summer in England, with a week or so on the Continent. While in England, the Bevingtons plan to do some writing and studying, as well as traveling. Bevington said, "I've got to read a lot of Henry James," then corrected himself, "I want to read a lot of Henry James...