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...glittering, imposing or sinister figures who descend on Manhattan when the United Nations General Assembly convenes, the Soviet Union's Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky usually attracts the most attention. But on opening day last week, Vishinsky had to yield the spotlight to a strong-jawed newcomer from the Caribbean: fabulous Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, 61, who since 1930 has run the lush, green little Dominican Republic like a private plantation, piling up wealth by the tens of millions and crushing all opposition with iron ruthlessness. Trujillo had left his brother Héctor in charge at home and taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Hail to the Jefe | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

...This thing can be painful if you give mumps a chance to descend," Robert H. Hamlin, Legal Medicine instructor, said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Doctors Still Caution Of Danger of Mumps | 2/11/1953 | See Source »

Almost 2,000 physicists and engineers will descend on the University today for the opening sessions of the American Physical Society's annual convention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 2000 Physicists Start Convention; Van Vleck, Purcell to Talk Friday | 1/22/1953 | See Source »

...week he goes on TV with This Is Charles Laughton to help redress the balance. All that viewers will have to look at is Actor Laughton himself, a fat man in a rumpled suit, leaning on a stool placed on a table. But they will hear his sonorous voice descend to a whisper and rise to a shout as he reads stories from the Bible and Guy de Maupassant, from James Thurber and Dickens and Thomas Wolfe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: For TV Listeners | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

Born. To John George Chetwynd-Talbot, 38, the 21st Earl of Shrewsbury, and Lady Shrewsbury, 39: their fifth child, first son and thus heir, since the title and estate (a castled 8,000 acres) descend through the male line; in Stafford, England. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 5, 1953 | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

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