Word: merriman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Symphony (Sat. 5:45 p.m., NBC). Toscanini conducting Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, with Singers Lois Marshall, Nan Merriman, Eugene Conley, Jerome Hines...
...another eventful year for the Finleys. Finley had just completed Iris world-famous analysis of Thucydides when he was appointed Master of Eliot. Moving day, Finley recalls, was a dewildering experience. "The Master's residence was designed for Eliot's first Master, "Frisky" Merriman. He was a big man with four large children and he liked the barn-like size of these rooms. When Mrs. Finley and I toddled in with our two slender children, the place overwhelmed...
...those subjects first, on other things if time allowed. Exactly 33 minutes after he walked into the room he gave the reporters a quick grin, waved goodbye and walked out. thus ignoring the Roosevelt-Truman custom by which the senior White House correspondent, U.P.'s sleek-haired Merriman Smith, ends press conferences with a "Thank you, Mr. President...
During his farewell interviews with old friends in the White House press corps last week, Harry Truman managed to take a shot at an old foe. His "primary reason" for firing General Douglas MacArthur, he told United Press's Merriman Smith, was that MacArthur "wanted to involve us in an all-out war in the Far East." For more than 24 hours after this shot zinged off in the old soldier's direction, there was nothing but silence. Then, having laid his guns carefully, MacArthur sent back a whole volley. Through his aide, Major General Courtney Whitney...
...newsmen, assigned to cover President-elect Eisenhower's trip to Korea on a pool basis, were instructed last week to "fade from the public view" in preparation for the secret flight. The six: U.P.'s Merriman Smith; A.P.'s Don Whitehead; I.N.S.'s Bob Considine; Mutual Broadcasting's Everett Holies, representing the combined radio networks; International News Photos' Frank Jurkoski, pool photographer; Pathe News's David Oliver, who will take pictures for newsreels and TV. Best guess was that they would travel on Ike's plane. The newsmen have agreed to turn...