Word: paces
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Snyder, Jesse Donaldson, Maurice Tobin, Oscar Chapman (the other Cabinet officials were out of town) and Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black. There were also so many Army officers and so many others friends & relatives that Louis Johnson had to hold the affair in his big conference room. Did Mr. Pace promise to discharge his duties? rumbled Mr. Vinson. Said capable Frank Pace, in a loud, clear voice: "I do, so help me, God!" And in a short speech he added: "This occasion is only possible because of the man in the White House, President Truman, for whom I have...
...last day of the congress, Italy's Premier Alcide de Gasperi made a final effort to break the deadlock, pleaded in earnest but halting French. "I appeal to our French and German friends: let your pace be fast and your vision wide." Then, switching to more fluent German, he added, "We must subordinate even our elections and the destinies of our Demo-christian parties to attaining this union." Despite De Gasperi's urgings, the congress wound up with only a vague, if unanimous, resolution declaring Christian Democracy's "unshakeable will to fight Communism in union . . . with...
...first week of his U.S. good-will visit, Chile's energetic President Gabriel González Videla lived up to all his advance notices. Flashing a smile reminiscent of F.D.R.'s, he raced from ceremony to celebration with a headlong pace that recalled the late Fiorello La Guardia...
...know when we have had guests of whom we have thought so much," said Harry Truman, who made no attempt to keep pace with his guest after dark. At week's end, when González' train rolled northward, other Washington bigwigs were red-eyed and exhausted. Chilean Ambassador Félix Nieto del Rio saw his chief off on the 4 p.m. train, then went straight home...
Mozart: Symphony No. 41, K. 551 (the London Symphony Orchestra, Josef Krips conducting; London FFRR, 2 sides LP). Vienna's Conductor Krips has a wonderful way with the pulse and pace of Mozart's operas; playing the "Jupiter" with style and finish, he shows he knows how to handle the symphonies too. Recording: excellent...