Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that's Daniel, going into the lions' den," cracked a Washington reporter one warm afternoon last week. The Daniel: shock-haired John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 41, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and front-running candidate for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination. The lions: the 51-man Council of Methodist Bishops (membership: 10 million), on a long-planned tour to talk with top ranking Washingtonians, including President Eisenhower and Chief Justice Earl Warren, now waiting in Washington's Old Senate Office Building. Candidate Kennedy, head tucked in careful thought over each answer, was quizzed on his Roman Catholicism...
When he was finished, the bishops applauded warmly. One bishop's summary of the situation: "While Kennedy did not win over any Methodists who are strongly opposed to a Catholic and always will be, he did warm some of those who have not yet searched their souls on this problem...
...York's Judge Learned Hand, 87, completing his soth year on the federal bench. Traveling to Manhattan for the warm occasion were Chief Justice Earl Warren, U.S. Attorney General William Rogers, and a host of the nation's leading lawyers. Attorney General Rogers read a letter to Hand from the President of the U.S.: "You have stood for that excellence and temperament essential to the achievement of equal justice under law." Learned Hand found his reply in a Shakespearean sonnet to Time: "This I do vow, and this shall ever be;/I will be true, despite thy scythe...
...thought Monty would somehow foul up the summit conference. "The idea of you having a heart-to-heart talk with Khrushchev gives us the collywobbles," cried the Laborite Daily Herald. The Daily Sketch had some advice "to an old and meddling soldier: FADE AWAY." In just as unseasonably warm tones, the British press has been lecturing Adenauer, De Gaulle or any U.S. Senator who has anything harsh to say about Russia, as if to speak firmly were to jeopardize the chances of negotiation and peace. London's popular press presents the Berlin crisis not as a struggle between Russia...
...Warm Peninsula. Julie Harris as a Milwaukee miss who wants what some Miami socialites have got. In ATLANTIC CITY...