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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them. But the brothers' own art tastes seemed confused. "Picasso," said Mark Lass, "is a mere cartoonist." But when he was asked how much he would take for one of his "Picassos," he answered: "I would not sell under half a million dollars. I would destroy instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Rich No More | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...witnesses' names, relatives still in Hungary would suffer reprisals, Bang-Jensen held on to the documents, refused to obey U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold's orders to turn them over to the U.N. Secretariat. After a long and bitter wrangle, Hammarskjold finally agreed to let Bang-Jensen destroy the papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Magnificent Obsession | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Used to chasing the puck, they must learn to stay with their opposite wings and destroy the opponent's plays. Weiland's philosophy, "you can cut a better player down to size if you cover him" is a perfectly valid one but hard to instill in a group of goal-hungry forwards...

Author: By Alexander Finley, | Title: Sophomores, Spirit Spark Improved Crimson Sextet | 12/2/1959 | See Source »

...kamikaze planes had splashed close by destroyer Walke when a third crashed into the bridge, drenching her skipper, Commander George F. Davis, with gasoline. For a moment, he burned like a torch. Sailors near him smothered the flames and he exhorted officers and men to save the ship. While still on his feet, he saw Walke's guns destroy a fourth kamikaze. Finally he consented to be carried below; a few hours later he died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Song of the Kamikaze | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...dark suspicions that British foreign policy was prepared to offer the Germans up on a platter to achieve easier relations with Russia. The six continental nations who had allied themselves in the budding Common Market were convinced that Britain, with its free-trade counterproposals, had been trying to destroy unity on the Continent. The suspicions were often exaggerated, but Britain, whose influence on the Continent was once enormous, now finds itself more and more on the outside looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Widening Channel | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

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