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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually, Inspector Maigret is a gem of understatement. Always frank, in the best French tradition, the movie is nonetheless in perfect taste. As a result, it is absorbing and believable. Besides, there is no better combination than Jean Gabin and good Gallic murder-mystery...

Author: By Alice E. Kinzler, | Title: Inspector Maigret | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...Endicott Peabody Saltonstall Prize for 1958-9 has been awarded to Wililam M. McPeak 1L, McPeak was judged best fitted to be influenced by Saltonstall's example and in turn to influence others...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MePeak Wins Prize | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...best sense, the Connery-McLaughlin operation was an example of TIME journalism. From the man on the scene had come a knowledgeable, fact-filled report to be handled by a skilled writer who on his own time has written short stories and three novels (latest: The Notion of Sin), and who could, out of his own experience, make contributions to what TIME hopes Indira Gandhi will consider an accurate portrayal of changing India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 14, 1959 | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...duty, Gates told him: "Look, I need ideas. I can light my own cigarettes." Says a three-star admiral: "If you dumped a messy problem in his lap, he would somehow tidy it up and put it neatly in a package and dispose of it. He was the best Navy Secretary we ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: First Team Going In | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...Congress speeches to tour a Budapest engineering works, he told factory hands: "Czar Nicholas did not hesitate to send troops to put down the Hungarian revolution of 1848 . . . How could we, the working people of the Soviet Union, suffer our troops to look on indifferently in 1956 when the best sons of your people were being hanged? If we had not come to your aid, we would have been called fools, and history would not have forgiven us this foolishness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: I Know the Story | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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