Word: thanking
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...Administration, including his willingness to have the U.S. "use military force as necessary." As to domestic politicking, he observed then: "It is not a test of wills to see which party will be the peace party, which candidate will be hawk or dove." The performance earned him a public thank you from the White House...
About 15,000 people were gathered on the grounds of the Washington Monument, and they all laughed when Joan Baez, 26, hefted her guitar and said, "I would like very much to thank the Daughters of the American Revolution for all the publicity." Joanie really did owe the poor dears of the D.A.R. a vote of thanks-for stumbling over her boobytrap. It seems that Joan had determined as long ago as May that the D.A.R. would refuse permission for her to use its 3,800-seat Convention Hall for a folk-singing peace-in, had quietly arranged with...
...Trib, on the other hand, is proud of its tradition, thank you. Editor Don Maxwell, 67, was handpicked for his job by the late Colonel McCormick. Maxwell, in turn, has hand-picked his successor, Managing Editor Clayton Kirkpatrick, 52. "The Tribune is what it is today," says Maxwell, "because we have a tradition. Editor Joseph Medill instructed the directors of the Tribune in his will: 'I hope you will always be able to remain Republican but always show good sense.' I don't think the Tribune will ever become flighty. Not so long as I am here...
...finish was so close I couldn't tell who had won," Bus remembers. "The other fellow called over to the committee boat to find out the results, but I couldn't hear what they told him. So I yelled 'Nice race!' And when he answered Thank you,' I assumed he had won. Next thing I knew, Ethel was standing up, shaking her fist at the committee boat and screaming 'Ya blind bum, ya!' at the top of her lungs." They were some lungs even then. Ethel's last name was Merman. Says...
While we're at it, I want to thank Betty Grable for the wonderful job she is now doing on Broadway, and for her 15 months on the road earlier. I want to thank Eve Arden for those three months in Chicago last year, and Carole Cook for the Australian tour, and Dora Bryan for replacing Miss Martin so superbly in London, and Martha Raye for her stand this spring on Broadway, and Bibi Osterwald for her brief stands on Broadway...