Word: sellouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Millionairess Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski, 30, wife of sexagenarian Conductor Leopold Stokowski and self-admitted washout as an amateur actress at 16, starred before a sellout audience at Pennsylvania's Pocono Playhouse as the princess in Ferenc Molnar's The Swan. Consensus of the critics: "Nerveless poise." With Stoky's blessing, Gloria, mother of two and a painter of some commendable abstractions, suddenly found herself "enthusiastic about making the stage a career...
Arabs, were angry at Mendès' promise of autonomy within the French Union. They denounced Mendès-France as a "Judas Iscariot"; planeload after planeload of them went tearing off to Paris to protest his "sellout" to their powerful representatives in the National Assembly. Paris told Premier Ben Amar that Tunisian independence was at best a "stated principle," which could not possibly be implemented until "arrangements" have been made to secure the colons' special interests-investments, privileges, jobs...
Cuevas' show was a sellout at $20 to $50 a sketch. One Manhattan dealer sold several, sight unseen, by long-distance telephone. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art took one look at the show's catalogue and reserved two of the most impressive asylum studies...
Counterthreat. Mendès got Bourguiba's endorsement of his plan. Then, in a bitter five-hour fight, Mendès pushed his Tunisia plan through to cabinet approval. Two Gaullist members-Defense Minister Pierre Koenig and Minister for Tunisian and Moroccan Affairs Christian Fouchet -feared a "sellout" and threatened to resign. "If you resign," snapped Mendès, "I resign." That counterthreat brought the dissidents into line...
...three strongly held conclusions: 1) French Premier Pierre Mendes-France, who won his office on his promise to end the war in Indo-China. appeared to be a peace-at-any-price man; 2) high-level participation in Geneva might put the U.S. in the position of approving a sellout to the Reds; 3) the French would probably expect the U.S. to fight in Indo-China if the peace efforts failed. Nevertheless, last week the firm decision was dramatically reversed. With a Godspeed from Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and French Ambassador Henri Bonnet, Under Secretary of State Walter...