Word: sidelight
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...Another sidelight on the activities of the Dance Committee became apparent last night in the disclosure by Becker that the results of the Friday afternoon contests between House and Yale College football teams would have little or no bearing on the dances...
Mary Borden's story of the Hadfield-Spears hospital unit, in the Levant, North Africa, Italy and France, casts many a sidelight on the "fanatic" Charles de Gaulle. The picture that remains is of the "pitiable business when a great man suddenly becomes small...
...sidelight to an earlier Truman-Churchill meeting was disclosed last week. At Potsdam the President gave a dinner for Churchill and Joseph Stalin, arranged for Pianist Eugene List to present a Chopin recital. Winston Churchill listened glumly for an hour, then said: "Mr. President, why don't you go home? I can't stand this noise much longer, and we can't leave until you do." Recalling the incident, Harry Truman related: "But I was enjoying the music. And we kept Churchill on the hot seat another hour...
...enclosed from a letter of a friend of mine casts an interesting sidelight on the Ehrmantrauts' experience (TiME...
...Rothenstein, 73, amiable, bespectacled British artist who for five decades made competent portraits of celebrities, achieved celebrity himself with his anecdote-crammed memoirs (Men and Memories, Since Fifty) about such famed friends as Pablo Picasso ("the gigolo of geometry") and H. G. Wells ("a great literary cartoonist"). Sample Rothenstein sidelight on a celebrity: Albert Einstein once explained to him why an associate kept shaking his head as the great physicist talked: "He is my mathematician," said Einstein, "who examines problems which I put before him and checks their validity. You see, I am not myself a very good mathematician...