Word: aug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aug. 14, 1945-one day before President Truman announced the unconditional surrender of Japan-Nationalist China and Russia signed in Moscow a treaty of friendship and alliance. T. V. Soong, China's Premier and leader of its delegation, and Joseph Stalin, who had affably joined the long-dickering sessions, looked on as Molotov and China's Foreign Minister Wang Shih-chieh wrote their names. For the Chinese it was pretty much of a mockery-the terms which gave Russia a stranglehold in Manchuria had already been laid out by the Big Three at Yalta without China...
Listen for the Throb. At Columbia, the A & R man is spade-bearded, sagacious Mitchell William (Mitch) Miller (TIME Aug. 20, 1951), a long-hair (Eastman School) who for the last two years has guided his label to the No. 1 position among pop-record producers. Once a week he throws open the doors of his audition room in the hope of hearing a tune that is "right" for one of his stable of singers-Johnnie Ray (Cry), Jimmy Boyd (I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus), Frankie Lame (High Noon). Jo Stafford (Jambalaya), or Clooney. In four or five hours...
When Commander Schaeffer brought U-977 into Mar del Plata Harbor on Aug. 17, 1945, he was ready for almost anything but the suspicion that most interested the Allied commissioners who questioned him: that U-977 had carried Hitler to some South American hideaway. Schaeffer eventually convinced them it had not. The legend that Hitler is still alive annoys Schaeffer. Its danger, he feels, is that Germans may believe it and sit back "waiting for ghosts to return from the grave to do their work for them...
...created a series of university professorships "in the hope that distinguished scholars with a 'roving commission' would help to break down departmental barriers." Over protests from some professors, he plumped for a program of general education, and with the publication of the famed Harvard Report (TIME, Aug. 13, 1945), he placed an official seal on a great postwar overhaul of higher education...
...June 28, 1943); International Business Machines' Chairman Thomas ("Think") Watson; Manhattan's Rev. Norman Vincent Peale; Minnesota's Congressman Walter H. Judd, who was once a physician-missionary himself. Pastor Burkhart, who has made a name for himself in Columbus as a socially conscious clergyman (TIME, Aug. n, 1947). was elected president. The purpose of the organization, as he sees it: to recruit enough money and personnel in the U.S. for an intensive five-year program of practical aid, on a "village level," in areas that suffer from material want...