Word: auguste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impending changes in the top command of the U.S. armed forces. The rumors varied in detail, but nearly all agreed that 1) Air Force Chief of Staff Nathan F. Twining, 59, will become Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff when Admiral Arthur Radford's term expires in August, and 2), Twining's replacement will be Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Thomas White, 55, a skilled Pentagon hand since 1948. Missing from all the gossip lists was the name of Strategic Air Commander Curtis LeMay, 50, one of the great military organizers of modern times, who does...
Malaya: Despite a nine-year-old Communist uprising, Chief Minister Tengku Abdul Rahman, a wealthy Malayan Moslem prince, announced that his government would cut British forces in Malaya by 50% and start building its own army after the Federation (pop. 6,200,000) achieves independence next August...
...Manhattan's august music house, G. Schirmer Inc., do-it-yourself Calypso Kits (including bongo drums, a gourd and a pair of maracas) were selling briskly last week for $24.50 and up. Columbia Records has announced an album of calypso songs especially styled for children. Obscure pop singers are desperately shaking their hips and broadening their A's in the rush to learn calypso. And Hollywood is considering a dozen calypso films, including Calypso Grips So, and (taking advantage of the best of two possible worlds) Bop Girl Goes Calypso...
...other Fauves, the "Wild Beasts" who revolted against impressionism. When they returned to Munich in 1908, they settled in an apartment in suburban Schwabing, which became the headquarters of the Munich Fauves. Paul Klee lived two houses away, and near by were Alfred Kubin, Franz Marc, Alexei Jawlensky, August Macke. In painting excursions through southern Bavaria, Kandinsky and Gabriele discovered the village of Murnau, where they bought a house, called to this day the Russenhaus, with a fine view of the Alpine foothills. Kandinsky held court there too. "Every day is like a festival," Macke wrote. "At Kandinsky...
...Teahouse of the August Moon. Menu: tee-hee (scented with sociology), and a side dish of red-white-and-blue-striped slapstick, charmingly served by Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Machiko Kyo (TIME...