Word: seene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tables of statistics in Washington, crowded with numbers so immense that no one could really grasp them, one figure was simple enough to be seen, smelled and tasted: each day the U.S. was spending $15 million more than it was taking...
After the headline-making broadcast, Author Robert Sherwood, biographer of Hopkins, promptly labeled the yarn "one of the most amazing cock-and-bull stories I have ever heard." He declared that never, in his reading of thousands of Hopkins papers, had he seen any White House stationery bearing his name. In initialing documents, said Sherwood, Hopkins invariably wrote "H. L. H.," never "H. H." This week the House Un-American Activities Committee opened a hearing. On the stand, Racey Jordan repeated his charges; but this time said he had spoken to Hopkins only once. The committee's investigator pointed...
...Rough. Seldom had pro football seen such a superbly integrated gang of old pros-and Greasy Neale, 58, was the oldest pro of them all. "I won't sit next to him on the bench," cracks Van Buren, "he's too rough." Greasy runs the Eagles with the casual despotism of an old athlete who can never quite forget that he was a fast, elusive end at West Virginia Wesleyan, where he got his nickname...
...Amsterdam Museum Director Jonkheer WJ.H.B. Sandberg thought not (TIME, June 6). On the other hand, Van Gogh Experts Jacob Bart de la Faille and Paul Gachet thought it was. To settle the matter, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, which had on display the most comprehensive Van Gogh exhibition ever seen in the U.S., picked a jury of American experts: Museum Men Alfred Barr Jr., James Plaut, George Stout and Sheldon Keck...
...Patience" has a great deal of very light and tuneful music. It demands the light touch to put it across with the zeat required to create and enjoyable performance. I have infrequently soon so much zest and life put into anything, and I have never seen a more enjoyable presentation of "Patience...