Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Communists took over in China, but the status of Kowloon's six acres was not changed. The British were content to claim authority over Kowloon City while staying out of it, letting the jungle govern itself. But last month, when a police constable was attacked and a heroin...
The cops had to be called out in Turkey (TIME, Aug. 24), and the Salzburg concert was S.R.O. In Warsaw, where the orchestra was showered with flowers, Associate Manager Carlos Moseley reported: "The whole hall stood and cried 'bis' in some funny way that sounded like hundreds of...
*Who also made the New York police blotter last week by getting in a scrape in front of Manhattan's Birdland jazz spot. According to the cops, Davis and fans were blocking the sidewalk, refused to heed an order to move on; in the scuffle Davis got blackjacked, was...
Died. Edward Eagle Brown, 74, pace-setting U.S. banker who as president (1934-45) and board chairman (1945-59) of Chicago's First National Bank helped carry Chicago's wobbly economy through the Depression, was one of the first to promote term loans, played an important part in...
*The nine Negro youths were arrested for allegedly raping two itinerant white prostitutes in an Alabama freight car, were dragged through interminable trials that included all the cliches of racial conflict: openly bigoted judges, brutal cops, a sullen courthouse mob. The case aroused nationwide protests against the South's...