Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Colonel's Daughter. Before World War II, John grew up, like any Army brat, in the long prewar round of the elder Eisenhower's duty assignments-Manila, Ft. Lewis, Wash. He graduated from Stadium High School in Tacoma, Wash., took an appointment to West Point (from U.S. Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas). This was John's own decision, as were later choices, e.g., applying for infantry duty; his father counseled but never interfered. A modest, natural "hive" (scholar), he spent much of his time at the Military Academy coaching deficient plebes, graduated 138th in a class...
...Malayans, too, did things in style, though the curiously unenthusiastic calm with which they received their independence was attributed by British residents to the fact that it was "handed to them on a platter." Gracefully, round-faced, 54-year-old Prime Minister Tengku (Prince) Abdul Rahman* paid tribute to Britain. "Malaya," said he, "is blessed with a good administration forged and tempered to perfection by successive British administrators. Let this legacy not suffer." He himself was exhilarated, if his people did not outwardly seem so. "I am," he confessed, "as enthusiastic and excited as a child being given...
...written to commemorate his appointment as commander in chief of the Continental Army. A watery, hymnlike piece reminiscent of O Worship the King, it is chiefly remarkable for its naive but hearty lyrics, also supplied by Hopkinson, e.g., " 'Tis Washington's health / Fill a bumper all round / For he is our glory and pride...
...eleven-room apartment that she decorated herself, is chauffeured to the studio in a hired limousine ("my only luxury") for 8 o'clock rehearsals. After her 10-10:30 show, she goes over her fan mail (about 5,000 letters a week), then plunges into the endless round of business luncheons, hairdressers, interviews, benefits, art showings, recording sessions and couturiers (she has 200-odd "changes" filling her five closets). Arlene makes trips to the bank in an armored car, but insists that she likes the work more than the $250,000 annual paycheck she draws. Although the theater...
Patterson found his feet before Referee Tommy found his tongue. The 22-year-old pro (6 ft., 187 Ibs.) spent the next four rounds bouncing the big (6 ft. 1¼ in., 202 lbs.) Olympic champion (28) off the canvas. In the intervals when Rademacher was upright, Floyd showed signs of solicitude almost shocking in an honest fistfighter; he waltzed the challenger around, cuffed him into position, held him erect as if part of his job was to make Pete look good. In the sixth round, after seven knockdowns. Rademacher was a rubber-legged wreck and had taken...