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...things, grandfather Foster's turbine actually was just at the beginning of something new. In March 1950, at the insistence of Arthur Vandenberg, Dulles was restored to a position in the State Department. Dean Acheson assigned him to the job of formulating the treaty for Japan, a chore which had been on the back burner for almost three years. The Pentagon was not sure that it ever wanted to see Japan turned loose-at least...
While lawyers were holding transatlantic conferences over her divorce demands from Aly Khan, Rita Hayworth turned working girl again (at $252,000 a year plus 25% of the net profit on her pictures) and checked into Columbia studio for her first chore: five hours of color-camera posing for magazine covers...
With a television and a radio show already on her cluttered schedule, Eleanor Roosevelt, 66, took on still another histrionic chore: a series of 52 half-hour TV shows called Once Upon a Time, in which she will narrate in five languages the fairy tales of 52 nations while puppets act them out. Her producers: Roosevelt Enterprises, Inc., run by son Elliott with the assistance of son John...
...such phrases as "some have charged that-" or "there is a report that-." Many a Republican on the committee was frankly impressed by the Secretary's well-briefed grasp of facts, dates and documents. Wisconsin's waspish Alexander Wiley said to him: "You have had a long chore, sir, and have done a grand job for yourself, I would say, with that mind of yours. Keeping everything in it is a remarkable accomplishment." Some seemed bedazzled by the intricacy of his argument. Maine's Owen Brewster asked for a recess to give him more time to prepare...
...next afternoon, with MacArthur off to New York, the President, accompanied by Bess, drove in sunshine to Griffith Stadium to perform the traditional and normally happy presidential chore of tossing out the first ball of the season. There were a few boos from the bleachers when the President appeared, but they were drowned out when a band struck up Hail to the Chief. Grinning broadly, Southpaw Truman, after a couple of balks to tease photographers, pegged a fast throw to the infield. Then he and Bess settled back, munched a hot dog apiece, watched the Senators beat the Yankees...