Word: whirlwinding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dear TIME:Reader: As President Ramon Magsaysay paid a whirlwind visit to the Philippine province of Tarlac last week (see "Smiles in the Barrios" in FOREIGN NEWS), Correspondent James Bell, TIME'S new Hong Kong bureau chief, followed him in and out of a dust-coated Chrysler at each town and village. Alternately mauled, hugged, or decked in flowers by cheering crowds, Bell looked about him with more than a reporter's normal curiosity. Kansas-born, he had spent his formative years and attended high school (Brent School, class of '36) in the islands, where his father...
...jumping up and down on his dressing-room couch, trying to reach the ceiling and shouting: "I am an old man. Why has God afflicted me with the blood of a 17-year-old?" When he was a pink-cheeked 83, he led the NBC Symphony in a grueling whirlwind tour of 20 U.S. cities in six weeks. At 85, he conducted perhaps the finest performance (Beethoven's Ninth Symphony) of his career. When he finally withdrew to his Riverdale home, he still spent long hours in the living room listening to virtually every scrap" he ever recorded...
Living with Bill Knowland may be like living with a whirlwind but, as their son Joe, an Oakland Tribune deskman, remarks: "Mother knows how to handle him." She handles by helping. In his earliest California campaigns she worked night after night addressing campaign literature and copyreading speeches. When Bill went into the Army, Helen took over his job, but not his title, assisting J.R. at the Tribune. Bill rarely spares more than 15 minutes apiece for visiting California constituents (he eases them out of the office by rising, walking to his window, remarking on the beauty of the view...
...Whirlwind. In his two-bedroom, $175-a-month Berkshire Hotel apartment, Knowland is up six mornings a week by 7 o'clock, reads the Washington Post and Times Herald and the New York Times in his official limousine (a perquisite of his position as minority leader) on his way to the Capitol. The Senate restaurant normally opens at 8:15, but one waiter comes regularly at 8 to serve Knowland his orange juice, eggs, toast and coffee. It is always a working breakfast, once a week with White House Legislative Aide Jerry Persons, other mornings with Cabinet officers...
...playing of their music so that one can almost hear the notes. The artist is sentimental, pained, jubbilent, comic. An unusually fine draughtsman, only upon occasion does Shahn fall into confusion of details or lack of definition as I think happens in Labyrinth which could more neatly be titled "whirlwind...