Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia and Miami, all vying to be the 1960 convention city. For the 14th time in the party's history, they chose Chicago (beginning July 25) because: 1) 1960 is the. 100th anniversary of the Chicago convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln, 2) Chicago's central location, hotel facilities and guaranty ($400,000) were better than any other offer...
...central pair of young lovers--"poor little rich girl" Polly (Alice Therese Burns) and rich little messenger boy Tony (Pare Lorentz, Jr.)--also left more than a little to be desired. Miss Burns, who joined the company just two weeks ago, was sweet but not sufficiently at ease, and her singing voice, while pretty, was sometimes lost in the accompaniment. Mr. Lorentz's voice suffered no such indignity, and was among the best on stage, but his acting was otherwise awkward...
After V-E Day, Katz returned to Washington, where he first helped work out the organizational changes required for the transition from the wartime activities of OSS to a permanent peacetime Central Intelligence Agency. Upon transfer to the Office of the Secretary of the Navy, he "was assigned to the so-called Eberstadt group . . . in the preparation of a report on the Unification of the War and Navy Departments and Postwar Organization for National Security...
Died. Barthélémy Boganda, 48, Premier of the Central African Republic; in a plane crash (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Vice President Richard M. Nixon, Acting Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, and Central Intelligence Chief Allen W. Dulles, the ailing secretary's brother, met him at the airport when his plane arrived...