Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pageant of President Eisenhower's official tour, one American woman had a spotlight all to herself. The only trouble was that Barbara Thompson Eisenhower, 33, is the kind of woman who would much prefer to avoid the spotlight. But as wife of Major John Eisenhower, daughter-in-law of the President, and (in Mamie's absence) a kind of unofficial U.S. First Lady on the trip, Barbara Eisenhower began to relax last week and have a happy time...
...first job was to introduce the seven Democratic presidential possibles, and he plainly wore his heart on his sleeve. He breezed lightly over California's Governor Edmund ("Pat") Brown ("a man to be reckoned with''), New Jersey's Governor Bob Meyner ("in the spotlight of public interest"), and Michigan's Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams ("in the forefront of enlightened social legislation"). Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey was "one of the forward-looking thinkers in our ranks"; Adlai Stevenson, chairman of the evening, was "an important and gifted voice in the affairs...
...other action in the League, Dartmouth visits Princeton in an important game for the Indians. If the Big Green wins, it can hold on to a chance for first place in the League. But the spotlight of the day will be on New Haven. And there it seems that the Crimson will prove the old chestnut: Yale has the Bowl, but Harvard has the punch...
...TIME, March 12, 1956), who was called in to paint Gulley Jimson's big-footed canvases in the film version of Joyce Gary's The Horse's Mouth. "It's illogical and mad," Bratby confessed afterwards, "and springs from God knows where, but when the spotlight's on me, I feel enormously encouraged." Last week the spotlight was on Bratby again, with a show in London's Zwemmer Gallery of 28 new oils, turned out at a stupendous clip in the last seven months. The scene has changed from the gloomy digs he used...
McCall's tie-breaking goal also took the spotlight away from sophomore Ted Wendell, whose first goal as a varsity player tied the Indians and gave the Crimson new life. At 14:55 of the second period, John McIntosh passed from the far right across the goal mouth, and after a fast scramble for the ball, Wendell managed to flip it into the nets. The ball floated high over Ellington's outstretched hands and passed just below the cross...