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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...power and prestige were committed to the sterner bill sponsored by Georgia Democrat Phil Landrum and Michigan Republican Robert Griffin which he had bulled through the House (229-201) with his effective television appeal (TIME, Aug. 17). Few old hands on Capitol Hill believed that Conference Chairman Kennedy could close the wide gaps between the two without losing control of his committee, letting the bill go back to both houses for another hot, hopeless battle...
...Vanderbilt, made a fortune in his own right -after graduating from Harvard ('27) and studying aviation at Massachusetts Institute of Technology-as an aviation-securities specialist in Wall Street. As Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Air (1943-47), Burden specialized in Latin American air transportation problems, was a close associate of Presidential Assistant Nelson Rockefeller. As Special Assistant for Research and Development to the Secretary of the Air Force (1950-52), Burden laid the groundwork for his appointment by President Eisenhower last May to the blue-ribbon National Aeronautics and Space Council...
Debarking in Manhattan after a summer in his native Yugoslavia, Sculptor Ivan Mestrovic, 76, told of a visit he had paid to a lifelong friend: Aloysius Cardinal Stepinac, 61, prisoner of the Tito regime (either in jail or under close surveillance) since 1946. The cardinal is in "good spirits and fairly good health," said Mestrovic. Had the cardinal been tortured...
Died. Thomas Sivewright Catto, Lord Catto of Cairncatto, 80, who as governor (1944-49) of the Bank of England presided over its transition from a private to a nationalized institution, for years worked in such close collaboration with famed Economist Lord Keynes that the two were dubbed Lords Catto and Doggo; in Holmbury Saint Mary, England...
...Anderson in "Signifying," a tale of a pretty young Philadelphia schoolteacher who has come to teach in a small southern town where the "mens . . . ain't wolves, Jackson, them is werewolves": "I think you know how a man feels in a situation like that. You be sitting right close to a nice-looking woman, and she gets to telling you how some man done her wrong. You get to feeling sorry for her. But because she look so good you get to feeling strong, too. Then you get to feeling wrong about being strong. Then after a while...