Word: warde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Daddy's Hands. In California Adlai Stevenson's supporters had to sell him as more liberal than Kefauver. To ward that end, they imported an entirely different breed of Democrat than the Floridians brought from Mississippi. From New York they summoned onetime (1944-50) U.S. Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas and Eleanor Roosevelt to testify as "character witnesses" for Stevenson's liberalism, particularly on the civil-rights issue. As any performer in the political circus knows, flying cross-country from the hands of Sam Wilhite and Daddy Sikes to the trapeze platforms of Helen Douglas and Eleanor Roosevelt...
Pantaloon, by Manhattan's Robert Ward, 39, assistant to the president of Juilliard School of Music. The plot adapted from He Who Gets Slapped by Russian Symbolist Leonid Andreyev, concerns a disturbed fellow who joins a circus as a clown for deep-seated reasons of his own. Composer Ward's music resembles Mascagni's, with thick textures sweeping strings and sweet harmonies and thus Pantaloon has the makings of a successful theater piece. Unfortunately, the drama does not need, or benefit from, the addition of music...
Short Order. In Baltimore, accused of creating a disturbance outside the accident ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Adam Zamencki blurted to a cop. "You are nothing but a public servant and I want service," was served a $25 fine for disorderly conduct...
...entered the hospital, he frequently told aides he felt "just fine." and in the hospital, he showed it. Between being pushed, pulled, pinched, pummeled and probed, he padded down the corridors in slippers and wine-red bathrobe, visited cheerily with wide-eyed youngsters in the children's ward, oldtime military acquaintances in their rooms, doctors, nurses and other staff members in the hallways. Far from chafing at the hospital routine, the President turned his two-day stay into a pleasant rest, and while not on his visiting rounds he signed a minimum number of official papers and read...
...would like to congratulate you on the splendid April 2 article on Ambassador Angus Ward, sometime U.S. Consul General in Kenya. Having had the pleasure of knowing him, I would like to say that he was one of the finest "genuine" gentlemen one could ever hope to meet, and a wonderful ambassador for his great country. During his term in Nairobi Mr. Ward did not have a "bearded Korean hen," but he did have two most impressive long-legged Manchurian cats which were very important members of the Ward household. When Mr. Ward finally left Nairobi for his new post...