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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voluntarily" to build roads, schools and clinics in a scheme grandly titled "Human Investment," and Touré is working hard to rip up tribal roots and create a Guinea nationalism. By requiring English as well as French instruction in schools, he hopes to create a bilingual nation that one day can lead both English-and French-speaking West Africa. Such a nation, Touré was insisting last week, would not be Communist, as his enemies and some of his old friends are beginning to fear. The hundreds of English teachers he seeks, the new radio transmitter he wants as replacement...
Taking her first notice in her "My Day" column of Congressman-Son James's recent book, Affectionately, F.D.R., Eleanor Roosevelt took Jimmy gently to task for rapping onetime White House Housekeeper Henrietta Nesbitt. "Whatever Mrs. Nesbitt did," wrote Mrs. Roosevelt, "she did under my direction. I remember feeding everyone for a time on the same menus that had been worked out for people on relief in the days of the Depression . . . And I remember well the day when the author of this book, my son James, said to me pathetically at lunch: 'If I paid five cents extra...
...Vienna Philharmonic is a patrician among symphony orchestras. Others may be suaver, more brilliant, more impassioned, but no other orchestra brings to 18th and 19th century classics the same air of joyous spontaneity. Last week, under Conductor Herbert von Karajan, the orchestra arrived in Manhattan on a 40-day, six-country tour. At each of the concerts, the Viennese played Mozart-Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Symphony No. 40-and to many listeners the effect was startling. Most Western orchestras play Mozart as if they remembered the 18th century only as the Age of Reason, give the music a cold, chiseled brilliance...
Tanksgiving Day. Near Pryor, Okla., after discovering that somebody was stealing gasoline from drums on his farm, crafty Elmer Southern filled them with water, was rewarded a few days later by seeing three boys pushing their car on a nearby road, called the sheriff to come and nab the crooks...
...West Virginia mining camp called Edna Gas that was caught tight in the squeeze of the Depression. Sam and his five brothers and sisters spent their early years in one of a row of identical five-room company houses. Sam's father worked as little as one day a week in the mines, often had to queue up for free flour. The specter of the mines and a sooty lifetime behind a No. 3 shovel hung over all the boys in the coal country. Sam decided early that he was going to finish high school, no matter what...