Word: aug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to directing, Gielgud will play Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, opening Aug. 24. Miss Leighton will play Beatrice in the same production, according to William M. Hunt, executive producer...
Vallejo's first strike, which he led as a rank-and-file rebel with no union post, forced the government to agree to union elections that swept Vallejo into office (TIME, Aug. 18). A second strike in February collapsed after ten hours, but most lines of the federal railway system paid off with a 16⅔% wage increase anyway. Fortnight ago Vallejo demanded the same raise plus fringe benefits for the 5,000 workers on the Mexico City-Veracruz line and the 8,000 on the Nogales-Guadalajara run. He pulled them out and ordered 60,000 other railroadmen...
Taste of Sorrow. Author Simon's harsh, hard-blowing prose suggests, in the oblique way of poetry, the wind he writes of. A member of France's school of New Realists (TIME. Aug. 4; Oct. 13), he sprawls 1,000-word sentences, nested with concentric sets of parenthetical statements and restatements, across four-page expanses of type. The flow of words, like the wind, halts for a moment, then rushes on, engulfing a stabbing or a casual conversation with the same intensity. Simon rewrites without editing (a mouth is "closed again immediately afterwards, or rather pursed again...
Much of Chennault's sad and brilliant saga has already been set down by others, some of it by Author Scott himself in God Is My Co-Pilot (TIME, Aug. 9, 1943). But Scott's present accounts of battles in the China air, of maddening service red tape and of Chennault's leadership have the ring of truth, loyalty and experience. Generals in higher places treating Chennault as they did may have had reasons Fighter Scott never knew about. What he shows in Flying Tiger is an advantage few of them enjoyed: the knowledge that comes only...
...half light of the North Pole, 50 years after Explorer Robert Peary first got there, the U.S. nuclear submarine Skate cleaved up to the surface through densely packed winter ice. There Skate's officers and men, on their second underwater voyage to the Pole (TIME, Aug. 25), conducted a solemn ceremony: they scattered the ashes of Polar Explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins, dead since last December, who had envisioned the possibility of journeying to the Pole by submarine. That done, Skate submerged, went on to complete a record trip of 3,090 miles and twelve days under the ice pack...