Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Warm Welcomes. Yoshida arrived in the U.S. after a month-long tour of European capitals. Pausing in New York, he took time off for a quick trip through the Museum of Modern Art, where he was allowed two extraordinary privileges: 1) he was permitted to keep his glowing cigar as he whisked through the galleries, and 2) he didn't have to remove his shoes when he inspected the model Japanese home in the museum's garden...
...Bohlen is being brought home at the end of this month for a report on recent Russian moves, but his trip was scheduled before the plane incident...
...airwaves crackled with the promise of choice entertainment; but, as usual, the promise was mostly unfulfilled. Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith returned from a brief trip to Russia and checked in with Ed Murrow and See It Now (CBS-TV). Ex-Newshen Smith reported little that was new, concluded: "The Soviet leaders smile only with their faces-never with their hearts; the little people smile with their hearts-when they get a chance to do so." Historian Arnold Toynbee showed up on the usually exhilarating radio show Conversation (NBC) to discuss "My Favorite Era," but offered nothing...
...newspapers and newsreels. His father spent an estimated $1,000,000 on the medical fight to keep him breathing. Fred graduated from Notre Dame in 1932, went to work in his wealthy father's business, the Local Loan Co. of Chicago. Four years later, in China on a trip around the world, he contracted bulbar poliomyelitis...
...nihilism is a chorus of earnest buffoons: a Prussian millionaire who yearns to be an ethical superman, a general who is a kind of military Mortimer J. Adler and wants to classify all the world's great ideas, a beautiful but muddled matron who thinks the quickest trip to heaven is on a cultural broomstick. Author Musil perches them all on the lip of a volcano-the years 1913 and early 1914, just before the outbreak of World...