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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...military headquarters during a brief rebel occupation of the town. Lesser charges included failure to smile at or shake hands with government officials and army men. "Never," said Defense Attorney Beechenor of the prosecution's case, "have I heard so much made of so little." At bottom it seemed that the Rangoon regime, which mortally hates and fears the Karens and other hill-country minorities, could not brook Seagrave's refusal to make political distinctions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: Hot Potato | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...script dissolved Manley Halliday like a lump of sugar in the depths of an oldfashioned. The passages describing the long, lost weekend on the campus are among the most effective renderings of the binge mentality since some of Fitzgerald's own. They follow Halliday down to the bottom of the glass and leave him there, dead among the dregs, with the tired, very tired self-epitaph: "A second chance. That's the delusion. There never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Bottom of the Glass | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

Newly elected officers of the Union Committee get together for the first time. Top row, left to right, are Arthur L. Fine, Frank Plaxco, Daniel L. Ritchie (chairman), Daniel J. Collins, Jr. (vice-chairman), and Ebenezer Gay; bottom row, Richard C. Hermann, Larson Powell, Ralph Blum, John Neusner (secretary), and Noel Jones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union Committee Picks Officers | 11/10/1950 | See Source »

Drive chairman Robert P. Hyde has replied, "On the basis on information they provided and we were able to and out, we picked the eight organizations who made the most effective use of their money, and W.S.S.F. wasn't one of them. There is, however, a place on the bottom of the card where the name of any recognized charity may be written...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1950 Charities Drive Starts Today; W.S.S.F. Excluded from Fund List | 10/31/1950 | See Source »

...surveyed that truth from top to bottom. Born 54 years ago on the genteel upper slopes of U.S. society, Dos Passes got a long look at the depths as a World War I ambulance driver. He came back to a U.S. racked by social and economic change, threw himself into the defense of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Before long, like many another idealist of his generation, Dos Passos had plunged deep into the murk of Marxism. The murk slightly distorted his otherwise vivid, sprawling trilogy of 20th Century America, U.S.A., which remains his most notable contribution to U.S. writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Traveler | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

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