Word: aug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...juvenile delinquency (Estes Kefauver, chairman), a report declaring that violent movies are potential "triggers" for juvenile delinquency. ¶ Learned, to its general surprise, that John Maragon, a crony of Harry Truman's cronies who was convicted of perjury in 1951 in connection with the influence-peddling scandals (TIME, Aug. 15, 1949 et seq.), went to work last week as a $1.61-an-hour laborer in the House of Representatives' folding room, where printed matter is made ready for mailing. Pennsylvania's Democratic Representative Herman P. Eberharter said that he had written a letter to the House Democratic...
...just about a perfect novelist. At 60, Leslie Poles Hartley couples some of the skill and suavity of Somerset Maugham with a show of sympathetic interest, an emotion that Maugham controls to the point of asphyxiation. Hartley's technical aplomb helped to make The Go-Between (TIME, Aug. 9, 1954) one of the most admired novels of its year. In A Perfect Woman he demonstrates with good humor and feline subtlety how many ways there are for an author to tap and bat his characters around before crunching them jovially on the last page...
...great Democrat of the 19305 was made by the late Thomas Mann. They do not seem to know that Joseph the Provider, although planned in the 19203 in Germany, was finally written during the early 19405 in California, as a discreet tribute to F.D.R. and the New Deal [TIME, Aug...
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...MODEL AUTOS will not be introduced until October, despite reports that Detroit plans to roll out some 1957 models by Aug. 1. Automakers are worried that rumors of summer model changes are cutting into sales. Buick has even sent dealers letters flatly stating that its new line will not be in production before November...