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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...milled through Mechanics Building last week at the Boat and Outdoor Show saw what some say was the biggest collection of new boats on the eastern sea-board and were enlightened in the arts of the misery whip and the six pound double-bitted axe. They watched a guide cook dinner over a light bulb, and a monkey row a boat. They proved, certainly, that private boating is well on the way to becoming the nation's biggest effort, and that the people are numerous who see money with their dreams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Boat Show: Every Man His Own Captain | 2/12/1957 | See Source »

...night of July 17, 1918, ostensibly on their way to exile or imprisonment, the mild-mannered Czar of All the Russias, his German-born Empress, their five children, their family doctor, a chambermaid of the royal household, their cook and the Czar's English valet were all herded together in the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg (now Sverdlovsk) and sprayed with Bolshevik gunfire. That much of one of the most brutal murders of modern times has been recorded as fact in all the history books. A vital footnote to the bloody night has remained ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Anastasia | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

...Even Cook. Throughout his career, Van Doren has been so well-rounded that none of his friends ever regarded him as a bookworm. He plays good squash and tennis, won a $60-a-month athletic scholarship at St. John's to coach intramural basketball and baseball, played extracurricular bridge and pool. As a World War II pre-aviation cadet whose initials doomed him to the nickname "V.D.," he became adept at poker. Pooling resources with a buddy named Laural Whipkey, now an advertising man in West Virginia, Corporal Van Doren played poker twelve hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV & Radio: The Wizard of Quiz | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

Together Carl and Mark were editors of The Nation, and both married girls who could write or edit as well as cook. Irita Van Doren, Carl's first wife, has edited book reviews for the New York Herald Tribune since 1926. Novelist and Editor Dorothy Graffe Van Doren, Mark's wife, wrote and produced broadcasts for the OWI during World War II. The prodigious output of this closely knit quartet soon earned it the nickname of "the Van Doren trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV & Radio: THE REMARKABLE VAN DORENS | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

Heavyweight Kevit Cook followed in the main bout and exited with a large bloody cut on his cheek. Cook's performance was typical of Brown's perennial sporting attitude...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Strong Crimson Sextet Whips Brown, 9-3 | 2/8/1957 | See Source »

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