Word: sendoff
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...that the void had been filled. Turning themselves into a board of trustees for a new Museum of Early American Folk Arts, they acquired and will soon occupy quarters on West 53rd Street, near the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art. In a dramatic sendoff, the new museum also opened a choice first exhibition in the Exhibit Center of the TIME & LIFE Building, two blocks away. If there was one fault with the show, it was this: it would be hard...
...press conference. President Kennedy gave his new ambassador a ringing sendoff: "I've worked very intimately with him for the last year and a half because he's been a head of the so-called task force on Berlin, and has participated in all the ambassadorial meetings. So that he goes to the Soviet Union with complete knowledge of the Government's policy and also with my complete confidence...
...Bjorklund announced his scheme on television, gave his program a sendoff by plunging a hypodermic needle into his own arm. The odds are heavily against Dr. Bjorklund's clinical trials, as they have been against those tried by scores of other cancer researchers. But against such a scourge as cancer, the possible payoff is proportionate to the odds...
...good and his boons indisputable, have to seek sinners quite so flamboyantly? Nevada's Catholic Bishop Robert J. Dwyer of Reno gave his answer when he advised Catholics to boycott places of such "filthy and immoral" entertainment. Crowley took it in stride. Comparing last week's sendoff "bash" with the modest welcoming reception planned for his successor, he ruefully noted: "It is evidently much better to be leaving Las Vegas than to be coming here...
...moviegoers will never learn the fascinating answers to these peculiar questions. Apparently assuming that a picture with only one star (George Sanders) of second magnitude could not possibly be any good, M-G-M is hustling Village around the neighborhood circuits without even bothering to give it a Broadway sendoff. It is missing a good bet. Based on a clever thriller (The Midwich Cuckoos) by John Wyndham and made in Britain for about $500,000, Village is one of the neatest little horror pictures produced since Peter Lorre went straight...