Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hotel Del Prado. Although it is his latest and, Rivera maintains, his best, it still reposes behind red, hinged shutters in the main dining room. Getting the shutters open was not difficult, but nothing could be done with the dining room posts that stood in Guzman's way. Eventually, he shot around them and, the mural being an extensive one, he sent it to us in sections. Our engravers had quite a time piecing the sections together, and you will have to look closely to see where they are joined...
...week's end another group of travelers was on its way to the U.S. Representatives of Britain, Belgium and Luxembourg-Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, Premier Paul-Henri Spaak and Foreign Minister Joseph Bech-were heading west on the Queen Mary to sign the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington. France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman was about to leave on the same mission. They would be here to endorse an affirmative act on which the U.S. people, except for a noisy minority, were no longer divided -an act of determination which was the best answer to the fulminations...
Cores & Muddles. Whether the uproar had suddenly caused the conferees to change their minds or whether they had hoped to sell their cause by moderation in the first place, the conference itself got under way on a deceptively mild note. At first, the show might easily have been mistaken for an election rally for Henry Wallace, where the party line was pushed, but not too obviously. In fact, the National Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions, which sponsored the conference, had also espoused Wallace's candidacy. Dr. Harlow Shapley, Harvard astronomer and chairman of N.C.A.S.P., a veteran advocate...
...Institute of Technology convocation, a trip to receive an honorary law degree at Boston College, a speech at the U.N.'s cornerstone-laying ceremony, a dinner for Israel's President Chaim Weizmann in Manhattan. Reporters at his press conference suggested that this was Harry Truman's way of seeking a "reconciliation" with Congress. There was nothing to reconcile, the President insisted; it was just a simple change in plans to let him catch up on paper work and see all the Congressmen who would like to drop around...
...years old. This is not wholly the fault of the Met, since it has staged several unsuccessful premieres in recent decades; the empty seats in the Opera House Thursday night showed that the responsibility also lies with the public. But the Met has not gone out of its conservative way to convince its audiences that important things have been written since Puccini...