Word: arthurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Horning In. In Rome, N.Y., fined $5 for driving his cab on the sidewalk, Cabby Arthur M. Carr explained that he went to pick up a fare who was having trouble walking straight...
...full 172-ft. diameter. Huddled in the trim, 7-ft. pressurized spherical gondola that dangled beneath it like an afterthought were two scientists-Commander Malcolm Ross, 40, a balloonist from the Office of Naval Research, and Physicist-Engineer Charles B. Moore Jr., 39, a balloon expert who works for Arthur D. Little Inc. of Cambridge, Mass. Their object: to get mankind's first good look at Venus clear of most of the earth's muffling atmosphere...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, who administered the graduate fellowships under the NDEA last spring, says he is "hopeful about the Senate, but doubtful about the House." In his capacity as president of the Association of Graduate Schools, Elder has sent telegrams discussing the NDEA affidavit to Arthur S. Flemming, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and to Senators Lyndon B. Johnson and Lister Hill, and Representative Carl Elliott...
...best-kept secrets of World War II was spilled by British Historian Arthur Bryant in a book called The Turn of the Tide (TIME, May 20, 1957). Who really devised the strategy that defeated Germany? Bryant's answer: General Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff from 1941 to 1946. How did Historian Bryant know? Because the general -now Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke-had said so in his diary, which is the meat and bones of The Turn of the Tide. As Brooke saw it, the Americans were military chumps and not always well-meaning ones. His boss...
...project will be financed largely by rental from Smithsonian, a private company held in trust by the United States Congress. The remainder of the funds will be obtained from sources other than the Program for Harvard College, according to Arthur D. Trottenberg '48, assistant to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...