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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World Diplomat. Anthony Eden, and the government itself, seemed to have committed their own prestige to "success" at Geneva. Though last week the British had finally allowed its military representatives to begin staff-level talks on Southeast Asia with Australia, New Zealand, France and the U.S., it had promised that the talkers would take no decision. At a special Saturday Cabinet meeting, Eden argued that he could solve the Indo-China problem-if he just had enough time. The only problem was what the British call "American impatience" and the advance of the Viet Minh in the Red River Delta...
...Debussy's Clair de Lune, accompanied by five Madison Square Garden spotlights making like the moon. Hardly anybody had time to decide whether he was playing all the notes: everything he did (including a soft-shoe dance and a pair of vocal numbers) was over before it could begin to pall...
...contractor, lost all his money, told Jacques to give up and come home; Lipchitz got a part-time job, kept on with his studies. In 1941 the Nazis forced Lipchitz to flee from France; with only $20 to his name and some of his drawings, the sculptor had to begin all over again in the U.S. In 1952, just as he had recovered from this blow, a fire burned his Manhattan studio and all it contained into cinders and melted plasteline; Lipchitz got space in a Long Island foundry, resumed his work more vigorously than ever: in 26 days...
With this issue, CRIMSON editors cease regular publication for the school year and depart for Lamont to begin intensive study for next year's final examinations. A few stalwarts take time out from their labors to resume daily publication of the Crime during Commencement Week. The 1954 report on academic freedom, an annual feature, will appear in the Commencement issues and will be distributed to the undergraduate student body in next fall's registration issue...
...latest is Stranger Come Home, which comes with the assurance that all its characters are "imaginary." But any moderately attentive reader will begin naming the originals who inspired them almost at once, will feel in the end what is sadly true: that Stranger is a sour mash of stale news stories. The only bit of imagination connected with Author Shirer's book is the startling notion of calling it a novel...