Word: aug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special title of "associate" manager of Governor Averell Harriman's re-election campaign. Reason: Tammany Chieftain Carmine De Sapio realized that he needed Powell more than Powell needed Tammany. Running in the primary as an independent, Powell trampled Party Choice Earl Brown by 3 to 1 (TIME, Aug. 25). Facing an increasingly tough opponent in Republican Nelson Rockefeller, Harriman and De Sapio decided to sacrifice pride for 50,000 key Harlem votes in Powell's pocket...
...Thus far, Married Love has sold more than 1,000,000 copies in a dozen languages. And sexology has marched far beyond the outposts of Marie Stopes. In later years she was more often shocked than shocking. When the late Alfred C. Kinsey brought out his "female volume" (TIME, Aug. 24, 1953), Dr. Stopes protested: "It shames American womanhood...
Born. To Dorothy Kincheloe, 28, widow of U.S. Air Force Captain Iven C. Kincheloe Jr., holder of an unofficial world's altitude record (nearly 24 miles), who died two months ago in the crash of an F-104 Starfighter (TIME, Aug. 4): a second child, first daughter; in Oakland, Calif. Name: Jeannine Frances. Weight...
...Defiant Ones. Stanley Kramer's film about a Southern chain-gang escape; with Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier (TIME. Aug...
Since the Red siege began Aug. 23, U.S. warships and planes have been escorting Nationalist craft with supplies for Quemoy up to the three mile limit. Radio Peiping quoted Defense Minister Peng Teh-huai as telling the Nationalist Chinese he had ordered the conditional halt out of "humanitarian considerations...