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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Extra Guests. Within 24 hours, the 80° weather worked its therapy. Queasy correspondents aboard the destroyers gathered in makeshift press rooms twice daily to hear Press Secretary Jim Hagerty relay by radio-telephone optimistic reports from Canberra. White House Physician Howard Snyder found the President coughing only occasionally. His head cold was easing, his inflamed left ear cleared. So much better was Ike feeling that he stripped off his jacket, lazily drove golf-balls from a coco mat into a canvas shield stretched down the starboard side of Canberra's open deck while the ship lolled nearly dead...
TOKYO, Saturday, March 23--Seventy planes and a dozen ships were thrown into the search today for a U.S. military transport plane that vanished over the choppy Pacific with 67 Americans aboard...
Thirty-five others were rescued as were all 23 aboard the S.S. Elna II. Fifteen of the rescued--some pulled from the flaming oil-slick--required hospital treatment. Others were ministered to by rescuers. None were reported in serious condition...
Aside from their esthetic merits, the four stories give heartening evidence that mutiny is in the making aboard Italy's censorship. In 1952, complaining that the neorealist school of moviemakers had formed a gloom brigade that was ruining the foreign market for Italian films, the Italian government forced its state-subsidized movie industry to lower standards and raise skirts. Nevertheless, in Gold of Naples, Director De Sica has managed to say with a smile what he could not have said with a sneer. The four stories are variations on the same theme of human bondage that De Sica develops...
Life's Encore. In the final stage of their journey they encountered the overwhelming if absent-minded munificence of the U.S. Army. A Negro truck driver whisked them 50 miles in 60 minutes to Halle airfield, where a U.S. dispatcher airily put them aboard a C-47 bound for Brussels and, by easy stages, home...