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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In your piece on the American Newspaper Guild convention [July 6], you point a finger of criticism at the Guild's failure to 1) fully organize its field (contracts with only 176 out of 1,750 U.S. dailies) and 2) raise the standards of journalism ("Hardly a word was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 27, 1959 | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

(The above constitutes what remains of the notes for a paper to be delivered to a regional convention of the American Society of Social Scientists. The handwritten notes, brought in to us by a Summer School student, were dropped in the Emerson Hall corridor between classes on Monday and were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How Many in a Phone Booth? | 7/23/1959 | See Source »

In a word, according to Shaw, Don Juan is a proto-revolutionary, and so his Shavian descendant John Tanner is portrayed as a social agitator and the author of The Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion, which Shaw thoughtfully appends to the published edition of the play. In his own...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Man and Superman | 7/23/1959 | See Source »

The big break came in 1952, before the Republican National Convention in Chicago. Warren, as he led the California convention eastward by train, had high hopes that he might get the presidential nomination through an Eisenhower-Taft deadlock. (He had been Tom Dewey's running mate in 1948.) Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: California Clash | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

Glass & Golf. The first bubble chamber, invented in 1953 by Dr. Donald Glaser of the University of Michigan, was a glass tube filled with ether at a temperature that would make it start to boil when pressure was suddenly reduced. If high-energy particles (e.g., protons from a cyclotron) are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 72 Inches of Bubbles | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

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