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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Elbert Duncan Thomas, 69, scholarly New Deal Senator from Utah (1932-50) a sponsor of the G.I. Bill of Rights, and Truman-appointed High Commissioner of the U.S. trust territories in the Pacific; of pulmonary infarction; in Honolulu. A benign Ph. D., Thomas served five years as a Mormon missionary in Japan, taught Latin, Greek, political science and Oriental history at the University of Utah, wrote six books (Sukui No Michi. Chinese Political Thought, The Four Fears, etc.), doodled in Japanese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MILESTONES: Milestones, Feb. 23, 1953 | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

Thomas F. McGann, Instructor in History and tutor at Kirkland House, has a face which is hard to forget. His placid expression, underlined by a black mustache gives him the appearance of a benign dictator. Having spent several years in Argentina before and during Person's regime, McGann might give the impression that he would in the role to a T. Yet most of his friends know him as "Uncle Tom." Perhaps it's because he likes to run sessions like a high level cocktail party-often in a student's room-with the waft of sherry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Uncle Tom's Cabana | 2/6/1953 | See Source »

...luck, so he had no qualms about going off to Florida for a Christmas vacation. On Christmas Eve, his office tracked him down in St. Petersburg to relay a message: call the Russian embassy. Reston did, and the Christmas morning Times, in five-column headlines, accompanied by a benign photograph of Stalin, obligingly served up Old Joe's newest call to peace on earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Loaded-Answer Man | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

Last year. U.S. filmgoers made his acquaintance in the sardonic and powerful Japanese movie. Rashomon. Filmed with stylized elegance and thrumming with barbaric force, Rashomon nonetheless softened Akutagawa's savage original, In a Grove, with a benign ending. Readers with hardy digestions can now compare the two and sample five other Akutagawa short stories of lesser scope, all of which combine a bitter misanthropy with a craft that is as spare and durable as bamboo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Misanthrope from Japon | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

Under the benign but urgent eye of the U.S., Japan is beginning to equip itself for defense. Japan's Safety Corps (embryo army) is training with U.S. Pershing tanks, bazookas, antiaircraft guns, heavy mortars, howitzers. This force, which now musters 80,000 men, will have 110,000 effectives by year's end. The new Japanese air force will start training next month at Hamamatsu, 140 miles southwest of Tokyo. The nation has already started production of her first postwar airplane, the Tachihi R-52, a slow, low-powered trainer-but a beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: First Steps | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

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