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...world joined in the mourning, less for the international statesman-whose always exaggerated role as mediator between East and West had declined with the decline of the cold war -than for a tireless national leader. Nehru had more or less held together, in all its nagging greatness, Asia's largest democracy-indeed the largest single mass of unshackled mankind on earth. The true test of his accomplishment might be set by death itself; for it remained to be seen whether Nehru had given his people enough strength and order to go on without...
Midst laurels stood: Comedian Bob Hope, 61, given the National Citizenship Award of the Military Chaplains Association for his "tireless, unselfish efforts" to bring "warmth and cheer by personal visits" to U.S. servicemen; Composer Benjamin Britten, 50, winner of the New York Music Critics' Circle awards in two categories-operatic (for A Midsummer Night's Dream) and choral (War Requiem); Thomas J. Watson Jr., 50, chairman of International Business Machines Corp., elected president of the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America (he joined his first troop in Short Hills, N.J., on the day in 1927 that...
Some of the winners: Stanley Vanderbeek, 32, is a tireless man with scissors. He cuts pictures out of magazines-all kinds of magazines-and stirs them into film clips in a kind of stiff puppet action that writes a curious chapter in the manual of animation. In Skulduggery, Harry Truman comes popping out of the mouth of a sumptuous girl; then a hammer comes out of her nose and knocks Harry back between her chops. Breath-Death shows Harpo Marx playing his harp on the edge of a smoking battlefield. Khrushchev appears, sneezes, and Hitler pops up and says Gesundheit...
Last & First. At the end of the 1957 congressional session, for example, Johnson rose in the Senate and lauded Bobby almost to the point of embarrassment. "The secretary to the majority is the most tireless and indefatigable man on this floor," said Lyndon. "Bobby Baker is a young man who already has gone much further in life than many others of far greater years. And it is my personal opinion that he is just getting started." Another time, during Johnson's 1960 vice-presidential campaign, he took the better part of an afternoon to go with Bobby into...
Died. Clarence Budington Kelland, 82, tireless practitioner of the first basic plot (good guy wins), who in 61 years authored 10 million words chronicling the adventures of such homespuns as Scattergood Baines, Mark Tidd and Mr. Deeds, dabbled in Republican politics on the side; after a brief illness; in Scottsdale, Ariz...