Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Harry Truman, a specialist in the short, snappy, off-the-cuff answer to reporters' questions, was as brief as ever when the U.P.'s veteran Correspondent Merriman (Thank you, Mr. President) Smith first opened fire at the presidential press conference last week. Did he plan to take any steps to restore the money which the Senate (see THE CONGRESS) was busily whacking out of the $8.5 billion he wanted for the job of beefing up Europe? Of course he was going to keep working on it, the President said. He thought, however, that things looked hopeless...
...their 1932 platform promises, except the promise to put "the saloons back in business." At the height of his oration, word came that Harry Truman had just vetoed a private relief bill sponsored by Langer. The old man roared: "The bill called for $778.78 to be paid to a veteran of World War I. Today he is 80 years old and destitute." He waved his arms and pounded his desk; papers and pencils flew, page boys scurried for cover. "The President vetoes it," he bellowed. "I suppose he must start saving money if we are to give away $8.5 billion...
Sixteen months later, they were divorced. "We were babies, just children," says Ava. "Our lives were run by a lot of other people. We didn't have a chance." A veteran Hollywood gossipist sees it differently: "Ava simply outgrew Mickey...
David Alfaro Siqueiros is as peppery as a dish of chili and Red as a matador's cape. A veteran revolutionary, he knows just about as much about gunpowder as he does about paint, and is almost as much at home in a cell as in a studio (he has been jailed 70 times). Also, he wields a big brush, ranks second in Mexican art only to his friendly enemy Diego Rivera. Last week Siqueiros' latest mural was unveiled in Mexico City's Palace of Fine Arts, and it made a bang, as usual...
...Veteran Conductor Bruno Walter led the orchestra the first night, drew an overflow crowd of 3,000 (300 standees). He reached back more than a century for his first two numbers: Weber's Euryanthe overture and Mozart's Symphony No. 39. Edinburgh applauded but was hardly swept away. But in the second half, Walter & Co. won a real ovation with Mahler's powerful Symphony No. 4 (1901). Fusing strings perfectly with the horns, the visitors gave Mahler* a sheen that few Britons had heard before. They whistled and shouted, called Conductor Walter back to the podium...