Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crisis-while attempting to point up the Middle East's low esteem for Britain and France-that if he were an American soldier he would not like to fight beside British and French troops in the Middle East. (DULLES INSULTS OUR FORCES, shrieked London's tabloid Daily Sketch.) France will not forgive Dulles for his support of local movements against French colonial rule in Indo-China, Tunisia and Morocco. Nor will India forgive him for calling Goa, an Indian-claimed Portuguese colony on the India mainland, "a Portuguese province." Israel remembers that U.S. policy was much more...
...Mail did not stoop to reply, but its sister Rothermere paper, the Daily Sketch (circ. 1,304,892), cried in protest: "Utter rubbish." Added the Sketch: "If the Daily Express manages to get one reader to the South Pole by the end of January, we will pay ?500 to any charity the Daily Express chooses." In the midst of the English winter, hundreds of Express readers entered the contest to get to the Pole. But at week's end, while Fleet Street bet privately that the Sketch's money was safe, the Mail's Barber...
Next day most of the papers were in full, ecstatic cry. Headlined the News Chronicle: THE QUEEN'S TV TRIUMPH! Cheered the Daily Sketch: "The Queen knocks those critics cold!" The only faultfinder was Donald Edgar of the Daily Express. Why, asked Edgar, had not someone the sense to tell the Queen that her dress ("It was fussy with that great big bow") was wrong for TV? Why was her makeup...
Petitions for junior and sophomore candidates in Student Council class elections are due today by 5 p.m. at the Council office in Phillips Brooks House. Petitions must have 25 names from the class of the candidate and must be accompanied by a biographical sketch...
...Dudley exhibit last spring, is represented in this collection by a brush and ink drawing. Michael Biddle's humorous and highly personal conception of two particularly grotesque individuals, titled simply Cartoon, contrasts strongly with another very direct statment, Tom William's Big City Vignette, or with David Austin's sketch of more glamorous terrain, the Grand Canal of Venice...