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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, 30, is an asthmatic, Argentine-born, Communist-lining surgeon, and the rebels' best field commander. After slipping in and out of Guatemala on mysterious missions during Guatemala's Red-influenced days, Che joined Fidel Castro in Mexico in time for the invasion. He turned the tide of war with his bloody late-December campaign in the central province of Las Villas, which he commanded in spite of a broken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: THEY BEAT BATISTA | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...Paris (Jacqueline Francois; Columbia LP). Unlike her world-weary compatriot, Juliette Greco, Chanteuse Francois breathes her Paris airs with the garlicky gusto of a clothesmonger in the Flea Market. Her best number, Java Mondaine, is a Gallic shrug at a titled ancestor "who put his head on a well-sharpened guillotine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Records | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...Inquirer management had expected to clear out only its deadwood, it lost more than it asked for. Many of its best men walked out-with as much as $12,000 in bonus and severance pay. Among those that left: respected Medical Editor Joseph Nolen, Rewritemen Kos Semonski and John St. George Joyce, both nominees for Philadelphia Press Association awards for 1958. In all, the paper poured out an estimated $400,000 in resignation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bonuses for Quitting | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...where he had been sent to have his game sharpened under the watchful eyes of Kramer and other pros. Olmedo had shown promise, but little of the determination most tennis players need to be great. Rather than practice, he preferred dating girls and going to dances, seldom played his best tennis unless he considered the match "interesting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hail to the Chief | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...Illinois Institute of Technology polled 100 top designers, architects, and design department heads of manufacturing firms and universities around the world, asked them to list the 100 best-designed products of modern times. The designers' top ten, announced this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: DESIGNERS' CHOICE | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

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