Word: thins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Foster Dulles greeted his welcomers, Vice President Nixon and Acting Secretary of State Christian Herter, aboard Columbine, then emerged smiling, grey Homburg clamped on head, looking tanned but thin. He had a mock shoving match with Nixon at the top of the ramp to see who would make the descent first; they came down together, still jostling. Said Dulles into microphones at the bottom of the ramp: "I feel pretty good...
...second time in its 108 steady years, the New York Times this week made public its annual report. The figures for 1958 confirmed the point made by the report for 1957 (TIME, May 5), i.e., that the Times is willing to make only a thin profit in the interest of producing a news-thick paper. On gross newspaper revenue of $85,576,162 in 1958, the Times netted $166,052-less than one-fifth of 1%. For the handful of public stockholders (some 200), the picture was not quite as grey as that figure indicated. The Spruce Falls Power & Paper...
...Borthwick Cheney, built the first Taliesin for her on the ancestral Lloyd-Jones acres outside Spring Green, Wis. The liaison ended in tragedy when a mad Barbados servant burned down the house, murdered Mamah and her two children. Wright's second marriage, to monocled Sculptress Miriam Noel, wore thin in three years. Soon Wright was in the tabloid headlines again, jailed for crossing state borders with a handsome Montenegrin. Olga (Olgivanna) Lazovich, the woman who later became his third wife...
...sense of direction is lost and the piece begins to maunder. The final movement was transmitted in rather hazy fashion by the unsure playing of the orchestra, but it seemed much the same sort of thing. Mr. Stewart's material seems promising; had he not spread it so thin the Variations might have been stronger. His orchestration, at any rate, showed considerable imagination...
...Crimson track team will open its spring campaign against Army's vaunted Cadets today at West Point. Army is deep and strong in almost every event, and the thin varsity squad will need an all-out effort and plenty of luck...