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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In practice, the local-option act satisfied neither wets nor drys, and as provincial liquor laws were enacted, more and more communities abandoned it. Last week two Ontario counties, the last holdouts, opted out, and after 81 years the Canada Temperance Act was dead.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: End of the Anti-Saloon Act | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Booked into Montreal's high-tariff El Morocco nightclub, the four singing sons of aging (55) Groaner Bing Crosby soon found close harmony impossible. Their price tag was $12,500 for a week, but they only lasted three days. They bought their way out of their contract. It all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 14, 1959 | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Not since he stepped down as Britain's Prime Minister more than four years ago had Sir Winston Churchill made any utterance in the House of Commons. But one afternoon last week both sides of the House rose to cheer Churchill as he shuffled to his accustomed seat. It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 14, 1959 | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

One of the Orient's most thoroughly kicked political footballs, Henry Pu Yi, 53, got his freedom from the Chinese Reds after more than a decade as their "war prisoner." Last Emperor of China's Manchu dynasty, thick-spectacled Pu Yi reigned briefly as a child before losing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 14, 1959 | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Black Tie & Soap. Hagerty's first move was to shrink several hundred tour applications down to a manageable sum. In justice to all, he announced blandly, the White House would accredit all comers, but only one man from each news medium (the wire services and TV networks were allowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Battle Orders | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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