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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this suspenseful Romantic tale, all the supporting roles are expertly handled, especially the curious roster of people living in the Count's ancestral chateau: the Count's morphine-addicted mother (Bette Davis), who keeps to her bed and board (chess); his neurotic wife (Irene Worth); his young daughter (Annabel Bartlett) with a passion for the more morbid aspects of hagiolatry...
Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., of Harvard, the A.D.A. and Adlai Stevenson's 1956 strategy board, senses the change-and more changes to come. In a confidential memorandum circulating among the party's presidential hopefuls last week, Schlesinger argues that the country, with tidal regularity, goes through alternating cycles of liberalism and conservatism every 15 or 16 years. A new reform era is coming in a few years. But meanwhile, Democrats should ride the conservative crest and adapt to the changes. "Instead of the quantitative liberalism of the '30s, we need now a 'qualitative liberalism,' dedicated...
...advanced work in languages, music, mathematics. Such a pushing program needed a keen staff and close community support. A brush-topped joiner and prizefight buff, Brain got both. "His ability to hire and keep good personnel has given Bellevue the pick of applicants," says Bellevue's school-board president...
...vast majority of U.S. businessmen, says the report, feel that information gathering should cease "when it conflicts with legality or common morality," confined themselves to such above-board methods as sending a shopper to a competitor or analyzing published sources of information. But 27% reported that espionage had recently been discovered in their industry in forms that would do justice to any government's spy network. Concluded the Harvard men: "Business spying has resulted in the loss of many millions of dollars' worth of valuable corporate information...
Died. Eugene Meyer, 83, publisher, board chairman of the Washington Post and Times-Herald, who served his country with distinction: governor of the Federal Reserve Board (1930-33), first chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. (1932), first president of the World Bank (1946); in Washington. At 57, Meyer capped a successful career as a financier by buying the bankrupt Post (1933 daily circulation: 62,000), over the years strengthened editorial policy, bought (1954) from Colonel Robert R. McCormick the Post's biggest Washington rival and political antithesis, the Times-Herald, boosted the daily circulation of the combined papers...