Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stevenson said that he would enter, the Minnesota primary (where he already had assurances of support from the powerful organization headed by left-of-center U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey), but decisions about other primaries would have to wait. When a reporter pointed out that there had been talk about Senator Humphrey as a likely candidate for Vice President, Stevenson covered the field: "I think he is an admirable Democrat and a most competent and gifted man. I have said, I think, the same thing about some half-dozen by this time. I will have to get some new adjectives...
...member of a Draft Board here said that in recent months very few men have had to be drafted involuntarily. Generally, most men volunteer for the draft, and in some instances these men have to wait almost a year before they can be called...
There were some in the West who took this to mean that Russia would be more reasonable about German reunification. Molotov did not wait long to disabuse them. Back in Geneva, face to face with the Western Big Three around the green-topped table in the Salle du Conseil, Molotov revealed with relish that the "better baggage" he brought from Moscow was a fresh blast of cold...
...beamed nonetheless at her attentive husband, once Nazi Germany's top tennis ace, Baron Gottfried von Cramm, 46. He had met Barbara about 18 years before in Cairo. Amidst toasts at the Ritz, the baron recalled: "We liked each other very much right away, but we decided to wait a few years before getting married." Chimed in the baroness: "I ought to have married him then." After several more stirrup cups, the reporters departed with the baron on their heels. He headed for the Ritz bar. Wheezy with bronchitis, the baroness retired to her bedchamber...
...Rose Tattoo (Perry Como; Victor). A brief, misty legend in slow waltz tempo, from the forthcoming movie version of the Tennessee Williams play. It seems that some fellow got tattooed as a gesture of his undying love, and then he died, and the poor girl will "wait her whole life through" for him to return...