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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back in his office at 2:30, only to find that it was overrun by radio and television technicians setting up for the speech that night. He took his note pad and a handful of pencils into the Cabinet Room and sat alone at the huge Cabinet table. Occasionally Ann Whitman, his personal secretary, went in for dictation of a few paragraphs. Speechwriter Kevin McCann, Aides Adams and Persons and News Secretary James Hagerty moved in and out, but essentially it was the President's own message in his own words. He read the speech aloud three times, timing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: If the People Choose | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

While Jamaica strove to cut its imports, a rich new export was discovered almost accidentally. In 1942 a Jamaican rancher wondered why he could not grow grass on his estate near Saint Ann's Bay and sent a soil sample to a U.S. laboratory for analysis. The test proved that the soil was rich in bauxite, the source mineral for aluminum. Two U.S. aluminum companies (Kaiser and Reynolds) and one Canadian (Aluminium Ltd., known locally as Aljam) rushed in, staked out one of the world's biggest bauxite reserves, and are now shipping more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH WEST INDIES: Island in the Sun | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

...Stop, by William Inge, is a most agreeable comedy dashed with a touch of warming pathos. Scene is a snowed-in diner just far enough from Kansas City. Starring Peggy Ann Garner, Dick York, Glenn Anders at the Colonial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEEKEND EVENTS | 3/9/1956 | See Source »

...Ann Brace and Captain Ann Luyten paced the Annex sextet with 12 and 10 points respectively as the home team led from the opening whistle.. While the crimson-clad winners scored five baskets in the opening period, they held their yellow-tunicked antagonists to one and led 10 to 2 at the quarter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Young Ladies Win Again | 3/1/1956 | See Source »

Miss Goukassow defeated Ann E. Luyton '57 and Sarah L. Baker '57 in a college-wide election held yesterday and the day before. A Fine Arts major, the new president is editor of the Radcliffe Yearbook and of this year's Freshman Register. She will succeed Nancy D. Campbell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Goukassow Elected 'Cliffe Student Head | 2/29/1956 | See Source »

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