Word: walls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through the blazing red azaleas of the National Arboretum to Walter Reed Army Hospital to visit former Army Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall, gravely ill following two strokes, and former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. When Eisenhower pointed to an Eisenhower portrait of Churchill hanging on the wall of the presidential suite (occupied by Dulles), Old Painter Churchill said, "Very good, very good." Dulles asked Churchill to autograph a one-volume abridged copy of Churchill's war memoirs, "I would be honored," and Churchill did so. At times during the afternoon at the hospital Eisenhower was plainly...
...show's 22 oils were sold at prices ranging from $2,200 for the smallest oil sketch to $14,000 apiece for five big canvases. At week's end a new De Kooning was not to be had for love or money. Shyly backed against a wall as the crowd milled through the gallery, De Kooning was startled and pleased: "There's no way of astonishing anyone any more. I'm selling my own image now. It's being understood. That's the way it's supposed...
...sent stocks scooting up. Staid old American Telephone & Telegraph, for 73 years a holdout against splitting, soared 65 points from 202 within a few weeks after its 3-for-1 split announcement. So popular has splitting become that 80 major companies have registered or announced splits this year, and Wall Streeters feel sure that the old record of 181 splits (in 1955) will be topped before the year is out. While stock splits have gladdened many a stockholder, they have produced a good deal of misunderstanding and confusion among others. They have also stirred opposition from some financial experts...
...Clean Sleeve. A slight, hollow-eyed boy, he heeded the advice of older brother Coe (who died in 1917), managed to win an appointment to West Point. Two Honesdale teachers helped him cram for six weeks to get a head start, but the Point was like hitting another stone wall. Blunt-spoken upperclassmen advised him to give up, and it soon became apparent that he would always be a "clean-sleeve" cadet, without visible marks for leadership, scholarship or athletics. Once he made the baseball team wearing the catcher's "tools of ignorance," but that ended when he tore...
Pelting Bricks. By morning Usak was jammed with Democratic toughs rushed into the city by truck from neighboring towns. They rioted through the streets, beating up newsmen and breaking photographers' cameras. On his way to the, railroad station, Inonu found the street blocked by a solid wall of opposition Democratic toughs. He insisted on walking through them, and as he approached, Turkey's old hero shouted: "Aren't you ashamed?" The answer was a barrage of stones. Struck on the head, Inonu was knocked down but, struggling bloodily to his feet, grimly continued his march through...