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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presidency in 1952, but unobtrusive Hector had no pretension that the job gave him power. "Don't ask me; I'm just the President," he tells visitors. To avoid the bother of reading state papers, he has them brought on a tray and turned to the page he must sign; his handwriting is bold and handsome...
...Institute for Cultural Collaboration, it is probably the greatest venture ever in art publications. The first huge volume (Aalto to Asia Minor), issued simultaneously in English and Italian will be in the stores next month. The scholarship, supplied by contributors from 18 countries, is outstanding, the 542 page-plates excellent (98 pages are in color). Plans call for four volumes a year until by the end of the 15th volume, 9,000,000 words and 7,000 plates will have passed into print. The price: $32 a volume, $480 for the set. Said McGraw-Hill President Curtis Benjamin: "We were...
With her second Broadway role, Anne Bancroft has given her answer-and upstaged her contemporaries. At the summit of the American theater, Julie Harris, Geraldine Page and Kim Stanley have a brilliant new competitor. Such names as Hayes, Cornell and Fontanne ring distant on the ear-echoes from another generation. "We've come to the end of gracious ladies in the theater," says Producer Harold S. (Fiorello!) Prince. "Why, I don't know. But this girl Bancroft is the greatest there is. She marks the beginning...
...doubt that in the whole of our canon law there is a more complicated canon than this," wrote Bishop Pike in an eleven-page letter to the clergy of his diocese. Canon 36 provides for the ordination of a minister whose previous ordination may be doubtfully authentic, or who wishes to be a minister in the Protestant Episcopal Church without losing his membership in another denomination, or (as in Hedley's case) who intends to remain a minister and function as such in his original denomination...
...Frank Young. But he looked the part-bruised, scratched and haggard. And he had a hair-raising yarn to spill. Scribbling furiously, Buchanan took it all down, airmailed home the fugitive's own account of his escape, which was promptly copyrighted by the Herald and splashed all over Page One. It made vivid reading: the ordeal ("I didn't know which was worse, the horrible crawl across the yard or the swamps, the muck and the rocks"), the ride to Havana in a farmer's truck, the friend there who supplied fresh clothing, the hideout...