Word: thanking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thank you very much for your article on the Protestant sisters [Dec. 28]. In 1963 the Methodist deaconess movement in the U.S. will observe its 75th anniversary. Your article was timely for the launching of our year's observance...
...record leaves folk songs largely behind and roams the boundaries of the public domain. Since Gilbert and Sullivan are there now, Sherman has a go at When I Was a Lad from H.M.S. Pinafore: "So I thank old Yale and I thank the Lord And I also thank my father who is chairman of the board." Aura Lee emerges this way: "Every time you take vaccine, take it orally . . ." But the best of all is a number in which Queen Victoria sings the Bill Bailey melody, sniffling, "Disraeli, won't you please come home...
...young innocents to the old. rises toward heaven: 'Peace! Peace!'" Even Nikita Khrushchev was moved. He praised the Pope's pleas for peace, sent him a greeting on his 80th birthday. Many in the Vatican thought the Pope should ignore it, but John sat down and wrote a reply: "Thank you for the thought. And I will pray for the people of Russia...
This last remark brought Miller's show and our Boston back to the forefront of our mind. We said so. "We all like Boston as a city," the doctor told us. "And the show is certainly a hit. But thank goodness for a little Harvard leavening in the audience. A Boston night-time audience is like a matinee crowd anywhere else; and a Boston matinee audience is an advertisement for Medicare...
...Roosevelt requested that some future President appoint the hero's son, then an infant of 18 months, to West Point as a tribute to his father's bravery. Yet when he offered the young man a presidential appointment, continued Ike, young Kelly politely declined the favor: "Thank you very much -I'll earn it myself." "Which he did," said Ike. After lunch, the old soldier joined Kelly and his West Point glee clubmates in On, Brave Old Army Team, sang so well that one cadet marveled, "He was right on pitch," causing the New York Daily News...