Word: says
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would be fitting to say that Van Cliburn's talent was discovered in June 1952, when, at the age of 17, he received the Chopin Scholarship of $1,000 from the Kosciuszko Foundation. This will surely gladden the hearts of the captive people of Poland and of all U.S. citizens of Polish descent...
...this spirit last week that the President, at a critical time in French affairs, paid a press-conference tribute to Charles de Gaulle: "I will say this: I happen to be one of those people that liked him." And within hours of De Gaulle's accession, the White House put out a statement that wrapped up the President's devout hopes for the difficult days ahead: "We are gratified that the French crisis is now being resolved. General de Gaulle has assumed heavy responsibilities at a critical juncture in French history. We look forward to the continuation...
...those ideals and those principles on which America stands," he said huskily, knowing what it means to win the Medal of Honor. "Anyone who has been through the adventure of war with men such as you could find in his heart today many things that he would like to say over and above anything I have so feebly tried to express. I think the best thing I can do, on behalf of the United States, on behalf of the people and of myself personally and officially, is to say thank you -and thank a merciful Providence that...
Mike was born in a Fairbanks log cabin on March 12, 1919. His father was known far and wide as "Wise Mike," an emigrant from Serbia who followed the gold rush call to Alaska in 1898. Wise Mike was rugged and sometimes mean tempered, and there are those who say he won his nickname with wise-guy answers to everything. His breakfast appetizer was four or five coffee royals-a couple of slugs of bourbon sweetened with a dash of coffee-and his hobby was seven-deck "pan ginney" dealt out at the Pastime Cafe. Wise Mike laboriously scratched dust...
...plain talk on what is wrong with the auto business. "Many salesmen don't know how to sell," he said, auto service is bad, and the quality of cars is "not as good as ten years ago." The auto industry, admitted Briggs, "has treated the public badly, to say it mildly...