Word: statesmanly
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...week was Hollywood Columnist HEDDA HOPPER. With her came MARILYN MONROE, who makes a thriving business of publishing Miss Monroe. Her special A.N.P.A. edition was an obvious hit. Chatting with her, publishers beamed. Miss Monroe, as she moved among TIME'S guests, paused here and there before a statesman of the press to bestow her own version of the Pulitzer Prize: a big, moist-lip smile under half-closed eyes...
...listener he did not take by storm was Novelist-Playwright J. B. Priestley, who analyzed his first experience of Evangelist Graham (on TV) for the New Statesman & Nation, a journal that distrusts Heaven almost as much as it does the United States of America. Socialist-minded Observer Priestley, who in his stories has shown himself fascinated with the supernatural, found Billy just another example of the made-in-U.S.A. world that Britons are forced to live...
...wish the [new Prime Minister] health and strength," said ex-Prime Minister Clement Attlee in the course of a tribute to Churchill. "We cannot, of course, wish him a long tenure of office . . . but as a Mr. Young said to Lord Melbourne when that statesman was hesitating to accept the premiership: 'Why, damn it all . . . if it only last three months, it will be worthwhile to have been Prime Minister of England...
...curtain rang up on the final act of Winston Churchill's long and dramatic career last week. Even a statesman with his great flair for drama could have asked for no more effective tableau. There at stage center, its polished brass numerals gleaming in the lamplight of London's Downing Street, was the famed, ebon-black door marked "10." Choking the narrow street but held back to a respectful distance by alert bobbies were crowds of Londoners whose suspenseful interest in the drama was drawn taut by the lack of printed news caused by a newspaper strike...
...foreign-capital operations in Brazil; of a heart attack; in Rio de Janeiro. Outspoken, scrupulously honest Politico Bernardes was exiled and later pardoned by President Getulio Vargas for his part in the unsuccessful São Paulo revolt in 1932, in later years was widely hailed as the elder statesman of Brazilian nationalism and as a major influence behind the 1953 petroleum bill, which closed Brazil's oil resources to foreign companies...