Word: danae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From New York Times Correspondent Dana Adams Schmidt, in Paris this week, came a report of what covering the news is like behind the Iron Curtain. Schmidt, who slipped out of Prague 13 months ago, after a tip that the Czech police were ready to arrest him on phony charges, wrote: "Even the official sources of information had dried up." To get what news he could, Schmidt had to rely on "visits after dark, meetings on street corners, anonymous telephone calls, letters shoved under doors." Before the Czech Communist coup in February 1948, said he, there were...
...Frogmen. How the Navy's underwater demolition teams cleared invasion beaches in World War II; with Richard Widmark, Dana Andrews, Gary Merrill (TIME, July...
...muster roll of World War II movies, but it turns out to be one of the most absorbing of the lot. The picture turns the trick in spite of a battleworn plot about a tough-minded commander (Richard Widmark), whose overzealous sense of duty alienates his men (Dana Andrews et al.) until the crisis of battle finally brings them together. Its secret weapon: the work of the Navy's underwater demolition teams, the swimmers who spearheaded U.S. amphibious invasions from Sicily to Okinawa...
...Died. Dana Wallace, 75, famed, criminal lawyer who made his most brilliant (but unsuccessful) defense in the celebrated Ruth Snyder-Judd Gray murder trial in 1927; of pleurisy; in Bay Shore, N.Y. His most dramatic jury-swaying trick: whipping off his spectacles (fitted with plain glass) at the height of a speech, smashing them "by accident" on the jury-box railing, brushing aside the fragments to let the jurors know that nothing mattered except his words...
...Admissions Office added Graham R. Taylor '49 as Gummere's first full-time assistant, and Dana M. Cotton also began helping the office on a part-time basis. In addition other officials like Bender, von Stade, Monro, Dean Leighton, and Professors Lect and Menzel have aided Gum mere by making special trips to admissions "problem areas...