Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...land. Researcher Fleming had a word for the foundation's governors. It was up to them, he said, "to create the free atmosphere which will allow genius full play . . . Much in the future of humanity depends on the freedom of the researcher to pursue his own line of thought. Fundamental research thrives on free enterprise, and wilts and withers under too many controls...
...pocket and a concert contract in hand. Father Wasner came along as the family chaplain, by special dispensation of his bishop. "How I hated this country at first," Mrs. Trapp says. "Oblong envelopes and mayonnaise on pears!" But the family was soon making $1,000 a concert, and she thought better of the country. "It's so big," she exclaims, "and I love to make long-distance calls!" All the Trapps are now U.S. citizens, have dropped their titles...
...Italian artists who composed that manifesto in 1910 called themselves "Futurists" and thought they had hit upon the makings of a modern renaissance. One of the best, Umberto Boccioni, sculptured a figure that aptly symbolized their program: a striding man transformed into a flamelike tangle of whipping air currents...
Live-wire Editor Louis Seltzer thought Cleveland needed a World War II Memorial, preferably a big one. In 1945, his promotion-conscious Press began beating Page-One drums to raise a $100,000 memorial fund, soon thumped it over the top. Seltzer then asked Sculptor Marshall
...attendance (down slightly from 1948) and on the behavior of ballplayers (mugging for the cameras). White Sox Manager Jack Onslow talked of fining one of his pitchers for rolling the catcher's return-throw up one arm, across his shoulders and down the other-for the amusement, Onslow thought, of taproom video friends...