Word: aug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gisella Kapus, the gallant Hungarian refugee who lost her left foot in a land-mine explosion as she was escaping through the Iron Curtain (TIME, Aug. 9). stopped over in Washington with her family to meet the President, on her way to a new home in Texas. "I am delighted to welcome you to this country," Ike told Mrs. Kapus. "I hope you grow to love this country, and I hope you like Texas particularly, because I was born there." He was especially pleased to learn that the Kapus family had been helped by private organizations in its flight...
...Tunis too, the bright promise of local autonomy that Premier Mendès-France brought (TIME, Aug. 9) was already being tarnished by old habits of suspicion. The venerable (72) Bey of Tunis, with Mendès' backing, appointed Tahar Ben Amar, 68, one of the protectorate's biggest landowners, to be Premier. He was certainly as pro-French as anyone could wish. But he immediately ran into difficulties...
...half earnings ($19.4 million). Bethlehem Steel's Chairman Eugene G. Grace also reported profits 7.8% ahead of a year ago ($31 million). Grace went on to confirm reports that Bethlehem, the country's second largest steelmaker, was talking merger with the sixth largest, Youngstown Sheet & Tube (TIME, Aug. 2). The announcement sent the stocks of both companies sharply higher, Youngstown rising 5⅛ to 58 in a single day and Bethlehem gaining...
...Remington Rand's annual stockholders' meeting last year, Professional Heckler Lewis D. Gilbert had a question for the chair: Why did Board Chairman Douglas MacArthur own no stock in the company? That, the Old Soldier brusquely replied, was none of Gilbert's business (TIME, Aug. 10). In Buffalo last week, as Remington Rand stockholders met again, there was a marked improvement in MacArthur-Gilbert relations. Ex-Corporal Gilbert was pleased to note that the five-star general had since bought 800 shares of company stock, a transaction that had been duly recorded by the Securities and Exchange...
Rear Window. Hot and cold flashes of kissing and killing, as Alfred Hitchcock lets Jimmy Stewart, Grace Kelly and the customer get the eavesdrop on a murderer (TIME, Aug...