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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...promising television programs. Among the recommendations for this week: the return of Milton ("Mr. Television") Berle to active duty, Jackie Gleason and Betsy Palmer in The Time of Your Life, TIME Cover Subject (Nov. 28, '55) Julie Harris in Johnny Belinda. ¶The editors' choices of the best current books, as well as TIME'S own bestseller list (what makes the best reading and the best selling will only occasionally coincide). The bestseller list is compiled from weekly wired reports by TIME correspondents in 22 U.S. cities, collated according to a statistical system of weighting (by sales...
...best friend used to be forced to eat people food not fit for a dog. Now U.S. families are spending more for dog food than they are for baby's. See BUSINESS, Oh, for a Dog's Life...
Paris government last year did its best to suppress, a commission composed of some of France's most distinguished civil servants, doctors, diplomats and soldiers stated, among many examples of brutality and injustice, that on three occasions Moslem "suspects" were locked up for the night in empty wine cellars; in the process 68 died of asphyxiation...
Peripatetic Bemocrat Adlai Stevenson, arriving in San Francisco to do some political hustling for fellow Bemocrats, did his spent best to hush up any 1960 talk about himself for, say, the presidency. After a girl handed him a broom "to sweep them all out in 1960." photographers gleefully demanded a flurry of retakes. Clutching the broom, an embarrassed Stevenson advanced grimly on a squad of girls bearing "Don't say no, Adlai" placards, mumbled helplessly: "I'm sorry to disappoint you-I'll try to find another candidate...
...member of the education committee, he knew as well as his listeners. Scholarship programs ensure public-school education for brilliant sons of the poor; and while the fee-charging schools have always been centers of privilege, snobbery is less important than the fact that they provide Britain's best pre-university education...