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...Army band sounded The Star-Spangled Banner. Then it broke into the measured strains of Deutschland über Alles. "This," murmured the old man, "is a turning point in history...
...depends on where you sit. To moviegoers, 1953 was almost a banner year, in a half-mast sort of way; considering that there were not so many pictures, there was a surprising number of good ones. To moviemakers sitting in Hollywood, the year was one of the most worrisome in history. The box-office collapse, caused by the ever-widening spread of TV, became calamitous in 1952. By year's end the weekly audience was cut in half, and box-office receipts were down nearly 30%. Then, early in 1953, came the 3-D craze, launched in December...
Stevens, a stony-faced, crippled son of a Vermont village shoemaker, was the crude but effective pleader for the Negro in the U.S. House of Representatives. Sumner, a master orator who succeeded Daniel Webster in the U.S. Senate, carried the Negro's banner there. They were the spiritual leaders of the "Radical Republicans," whose pro-Negro stand was far beyond that of Abraham Lincoln. In 1866, when President Andrew Johnson vetoed a bill to expand the Freedmen's Bureau (an agency to aid and educate former slaves), Stevens rose in the House and called the North Carolina-born...
Against the dire predictions of the pundits, domestic and European, U.S. business is winding up another banner year. In that happy situation, while the doomsayers began to talk ominously of the future, the U.S.S.R.'s propagandists ran off new and louder recordings of an old theme and broadcast them to the world. From Moscow last week...
...BANNER year is predicted by the two biggest automakers...