Word: aug
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Because of Marsh's ruling, Attorney General C. S. Beck told the G.O.P. and Democratic State Central Committees to name candidates for the Aug. 10 primary within three days. At week's end the committees named their men. For the Republicans: able, first-term Congressman Roman Hruska, 49, of Omaha. For the Democrats: James F. Green, 37, an Omaha lawyer known chiefly as a twice unsuccessful candidate for national commander of the American Legion...
...start the first Madrid-to-New York service by a Spanish airline in August. Iberia, Spain's only overseas line, which has just taken delivery on the first of three Lockheed Super Constellations-to be called the Pinta, Nina and Santa Maria-will begin thrice-weekly service on Aug. 3, the same date Columbus set out for the new world 462 years...
...home state of Tennessee has buzzed with talk about his political future. Would the Knoxville lawyer turn out to be a good candidate to run for the U.S. Senate this year against Democrat Estes Kefauver? Last week Tennessee Republicans filed petitions qualifying Jenkins as a candidate in the Aug. 5 G.O.P. primary, and the Republican state executive committee unanimously shouted through a resolution asking and urging...
...Long Wait (Parklane; United Artists). Mickey Spillane is not a writer to duck the vital issues. The first movie made from one of his mysteries, I, The Jury (TIME, Aug. 7), was a warning to psychoanalysts to stay out of the numbers racket. The second is apparently an ad for amnesia...
Apachefied Dickens. Born in 1894, Cèline as an adult became a doctor in the Paris slums, a perfect apprenticeship for a writer who saw everything in terms of filth, corruption and decay. Two novels, boiling with ferocious vitality and humor, Death on the Installment Plan (TIME, Aug. 29, 1938) and Journey to the End of the Night (TIME, April 30, 1934), established Cèline's literary reputation; but World War II, in which he became a vigorous Nazi collaborator, made him a social pariah, who had to run for his life after the Liberation...