Word: aug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long as 1,200 words ("I don't have time to be brief"), and he doggedly strikes at corruption or any attempt to muzzle the press. Recently he began attacking the government, which has formally decreed press freedom, for underhandedly backing a paper, Ultima Hora (TIME, Aug. 17). Lacerda exposed the paper's link with the government, campaigned against it in his paper and on radio and TV until Ultima Bora's editor was forced to resign. (Another result of the battle: circulation of Lacerda's paper jumped fourfold-to 45,000-and he became...
Pumps & Hunches. C.F. & I. owes much of its phenomenal growth not to an oldtime steelman but to Wall Streeter Charles Allen Jr., 50-year-old head of the Manhattan investment firm, Allen & Co. (TIME, Aug. 2, 1948). A shrewd operator who credits his success to playing hunches backed by common sense, Charlie Allen set up his own brokerage house when he was 19, went broke and lost $1,000,000 in the 1929 crash, made a fast comeback buying blocks of stock at bargain prices. Currently, he controls 13 companies, worth some $450 million, including Arma Corp. (electronics, navigational equipment...
...Cruel Sea. One of the best of the World War II films, based on Nicholas -Monsarrat's bestseller and filled with the salt spray and shellbursts of naval warfare (TIME, Aug...
From Here to Eternity. James Jones's wild (and sometimes woolly) novel about life in the peacetime Army, compressed into a hard, tensely acted movie (TIME, Aug...
...Master of Ballantrae. Wielding his trusty claymore, Errol Flynn hacks his way from Scotland to the New World and back in a rousing film version of Robert Louis Stevenson's 18th century thriller (TIME, Aug...