Word: six-year-old
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Winner of the first prize ($750) in the 12-to-16 age group was an Austrian boy named Franz Luttenberger, who did a happy gouache of his village. The other top prize went to a six-year-old French boy, Alain Cardot (4-to-11 class) for a spirited splash of workmen clambering over a half-built house. Alain was in seventh heaven. He lives in a cramped Paris tenement with his father, who is a pensioned French Resistance veteran, his mother and a sister. Said Alain: "Now, mama, I will buy you a bigger house...
...Six-year-old Sally Davies, daughter of Ernest Davies, Britain's delegate to the four-power conference that ended in Paris last week (see above), had written her father asking him if he could bring Andrei Gromyko back to her as a present. Delegate Davies couldn't, but Britain's irrepressible Columnist Nat Gubbins promptly seized on the idea as perfect punishment for the man whose evasive doubletalk had left the West's representatives limp with frustration. Last week in his Sunday Express column, Gubbins gave a terrifying picture of what Sally might do to Gromyko...
Britain's Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Ernest Davies, who has been tarrying in Paris at the Council of Foreign Ministers session hamstrung by Russia's Andrei Gromyko, got a request from his six-year-old daughter in London: "If you are coming home on Saturday will you bring Mr. Gromyko cors I love him and think he looks very nice . . . Love Sally...
...meeting was held in a small room with slightly chipped green walls, a rostrum at one end, and twenty rows of chairs. Sitting around when I came in were a couple of old men, two old women, and a six-year-old girl who mugged everyone present. From out of the corner an impeccably dressed individual with horn-rimmed glasses and a bush of curly hair appeared to greet...
...Right Honorable Aneurin Bevan, M.P., Minister of Labor and National Service, having tendered his resignation, the King has been pleased to accept it." With this traditional formula, the biggest internal crisis in the six-year-old Labor regime was made official this week...