Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...when he rose to speak before members of the U.N. General Assembly, a trick of lighting lent him a certain omi-nousness-his shadow stretched straight out at Russia's Andrei Vishinsky on his left. The delegates watched it with frank fascination. When he made his familiar, chopping gestures, the shadow appeared to be boxing Vishinsky's ears unmercifully, an illusion which was intensified by the President's words. His plea for a "foolproof" disarmament was obviously meant to offset Russia's phony peace talk...
Champagne & Vishinsky. Afterwards, however, when he was taken into the yellow-walled U.N. dining room for a reception, he did his best to make up for his shadow's overzealousness. The Russian delegation had pointedly refrained from applause, and Vishinsky, when the President was introduced to the delegates, hesitated until the last second before shaking hands. But after a U.N. birthday cake (a rum and butter cake which bore five candles) was cut, and champagne poured, Truman walked across to the Soviet Foreign Minister, shook hands with him again and spent seven minutes in animated and obviously pleasant conversation...
...directive explained that anyone shadowing a Communist was violating the law since the Japanese Communist Party was still a legal organization. Recommended anti-shadow techniques...
...trigger-itchy, always end up perforated as neatly as so many slices of Swiss cheese. No true Abner fan (classified by Capp as a "slobbering" fan) can forget the magnificent moment when J. Roaringham Fatback, the hog tycoon, ordered Onnecessary Mountain tilted sideways with enormous jacks to keep its shadow from falling on his breakfast egg. The hovels of Dogpatch naturally sailed off into the abyss below...
Died. Dr. Fritz Wittels, 69, Vienna-born psychoanalyst, disciple of Sigmund Freud; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. After clashing with the master in the '20s ("It is difficult to live in the shadow of a great genius"), Wittels recanted, wrote a eulogistic biography (Freud and His Time...