Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guiding U.S. foreign policy, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles will make use of information supplied to him by his younger brother, Allen Welsh Dulles, 59, whom President Dwight Eisenhower last week tabbed as the new head of the Central Intelligence Agency-its first civilian boss...
...London, Welsh Poet Dylan Thomas received the annual William Foyle Poetry Prize for the best volume published during the year-his Collected Poems, 1934-1952, which has sold some 7,000 copies to date and is still going at the rate of 300 a week. The commercial reaction: "Phenomenal for a contemporary poet...
...poets, for the most part, were still busier writing about poetry than writing poems. In Country Sleep showed the talented Dylan Thomas flinging about some of his typically brilliant Welsh images. But the poetic service of the year was done by English Scholar Nevill Coghill. His modern-verse translation of The Canterbury Tales might yet restore the great old yarner to the common reader...
...program are Welsh, Irish, and German carola and a group of English carola arranged by Voughan Williams. The chorus will also sing a special arrangement of Christmas Day to Coming" by Ruth Abbott. The congragation will be invited to join with the choras in singing the hymns "Voui Emmanuel" and "Adoste Fidelea...
...grimy Welsh mining town of Merthyr Tydfil, William Ewert Berry won first prize in an essay contest. Across the top of his essay the newsman-judge scrawled: "This competitor should enter journalism." He did; now, as Viscount Camrose, he is one of the greatest, and the most gentlemanly, of British press lords. Because he dislikes publicity, he is also the least known. Viscount Camrose, 73, and his younger (69) brother, Viscount Kemsley, owner of Britain's biggest chain of newspapers, control more newspapers and magazines than any other publishing family in the world. Last week in his annual report...