Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Waldstein said that he thought the proposed exchange was unique in local dramatic activity...
...Milton Berle's television show, durable, leathery Carl Sandburg, 80, stuck to whisky sours at a Hollywood cocktail party in his honor. Back in his prairie years, he told adulating filmlanders, he "reviewed a thousand films in seven years for the Chicago Daily News." Someone asked what he thought of the Beat Generation writers. Said Sandburg: "I don't concern myself with ephemera...
...figures outside opera with the awe of a country girl on her first trip to the city. Several years ago she heard about the "Night in Monte Carlo" ball at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, at which Prince Rainier was to celebrate his engagement to Grace Kelly. Without a thought that she could have been an honored guest at the ball, Tebaldi went over to the Waldorf lobby, settled herself in a chair and sat there wide-eyed, waiting to see Grace and the prince sweep...
...Both Englishman Read and Frenchman Salles are on the UNESCO art committee that commissioned the murals. "I was prepared to find something else that competed with Miró," Sir Herbert Read said, "but I didn't think for a moment the other works of art did. Surrealists are thought of as fantastic and frivolous. Without departing from the surrealist style, Miró had produced something on a monumental scale." Georges Salles was ecstatic, declared: "Against the monotone of cement and travertine, Miró gives the song of color. It is not a painting against a wall...
...Pope, they acted under the tightest code of secrecy in the history of the papacy. Author of the rules, which decreed excommunication for the slightest leak: press-relations-conscious Pius XII, who may have known more about the foibles of Popes' aides and press than anyone thought he knew. With the strict code in force, the edgy press corps watched smoke rise from the chimney in the Sistine Chapel after the first two ballots last week and, in each case, fired off false bulletins. They flashed too soon because the first puff of smoke seemed to be white (Pope...