Word: thawed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arriving on the set of Das Rheingold to begin rehearsals, Wolfgang Wagner struck his forehead and exclaimed: ''Is it possible that you're all Americans? He could be forgiven for thinking so. In the cast were Texan Thomas Stewart, Singer Sewing Machine Heir David Thaw, New York's Regina Resnik, California's Jerome Hines. Also at Bayreuth were such regulars as George London (Canadian-born but a U.S. citizen), New York's Astrid Varnay, Cleveland's Grace Hoffmann-plus California's Irene Dalis and San Francisco's Jess Thomas, both making...
...Madison Square Garden. Converted from a rail depot by P. T. Barnum in 1873, the Garden in 1890 moved into new quarters that were designed by Stanford White, the great architect who was shot to death on its roof garden 16 years later by Millionaire Harry K. Thaw, who resented White's flirtation with Thaw's showgirl wife. In 1925 White's Garden was razed, and a new one erected across town from Madison Square on Eighth Avenue. Here, over the years, Joe Louis stiffened his "bum of the month," hockey players scuffled, the circus came indoors...
...town"). The U.S. was not so endearing. At New York's Idlewild Airport he had a raging two-hour argument over a lost vaccination certificate; he detested Manhattan's bitter January cold, despite all that U.S. friends such as Nelson Rockefeller could do to thaw him out. He went to Washington to pay homage at the Lincoln Memorial, was ignored by U.S. officialdom. "Lincoln," said Quadros later, "was one of history's greatest men, but Americans are not like him. He was a lonely exception...
...have to have friends; and these the Soviet government, thank God, now has." Kennan hopefully thinks that, as a modern reincarnation of the murderous Ivan the Terrible, Stalin may have immunized the Soviet state against Stalinism. He believes that Khrushchev is the effect, and not the cause, of "the thaw...
...assigned three photographers to tell the story of Florida in the age of Canaveral, frozen orange juice and artificially filled-in waterfront lots. Photographers Ormond Gigli and Jim Langley began shooting in February in the south of Florida, working north "to give the vegetation and populace a chance to thaw out." Tony Linck piloted his own plane to get a bird's-eye view of changing Florida. For a pick of their 3,000 pictures, see color spread in BUSINESS...