Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dewey's own recommendation was for a new agency to administer the job of foreign aid, supervised by a "genuinely bipartisan board" (which was just about the projected shape of ERP). To be sure that the aid was not wasted by the recipients, Dewey urged that it be granted only in installments, each installment dependent upon proof that "the aid is being wisely employed for the purposes for which it is intended...
...Black. During the war the 64-year-old Metropolitan had become the world's leading opera house by default. It would have to earn the honor now, with European houses back in the running. Financially, the Met had never been in better shape. It was even a few thousand dollars in the black. The 3,459-seat house was 85% subscribed, the highest ever. Wagner's "Ring" cycle, one of its biggest drawing cards, will be back on the boards in new trappings. Replacing the dilapidated, 20-year-old scenery for the Ring will be new sets...
...show's top prize ($1,000) went to Abstractionist William Baziotes, 34, a diffident little Manhattanite who had been almost unknown outside of his tight, bright circle of admirers. Baziotes' winner was an undulant, candy-pink, two-legged shape with one big blue eye. After he had finished it, he decided what to name it: Cyclops...
...first three years in the pro loop, Jacunski had it rough. He played second string behind the incomparable Don Hutson. "The little exercise kept me in good shape," says Harry, "but it wasn't exactly healthy for the pocketbook...
Even though almost half of California's most valuable property, the sun, will be covered Whipple said last night that the Observatory was not providing for any data-collection even there, because of the predicted ring shape of the corona preventing good photography...