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Dates: during 1950-1959
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REFLECTIONS 59 on the Aisle Manhattan has the world's most inhuman subways, some of its most hopelessly snarled traffic and, in the public bars, its most relentless television sets; it also has some of the world's best music and drama. For four years, U.N. staff members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: 59 on the Aisle | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

If a Marx Brothers double bill proves anything, it's that the unstable members of any community, the lunatic fringe, are a larger part of the population than might be supposed. Any doubts about this will be speedily refuted by a trip to "Horse-feathers" and "Monkey Business"--where a...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 3/8/1950 | See Source »

Last week the Marqués de Lozoya, Madrid's art director, asked Jesús to name his price for the fragment. "Nothing," was the answer. "It brought me adventure. To discover a Velasquez and call it one's own, even for a short time, is enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Out of the Flea Market | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

The function of Harvard's Student Council in its relations with the administration is to suggest changes in University policy and to criticize and advise upon innovations which the administration is considering. In the first aspect the Council goes to the administration with student grievances or possible improvements; in the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Examines 7 Aspects of Its Activities | 2/23/1950 | See Source »

Anyone who wants to trim Government spending is apt to be branded as a narrow-minded pinchpenny who would starve the poor, paralyze the processes of government and hold back progress. None of these charges would quite fit Mississippi's Representative Jamie L. Whitten, or answer what he had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUREAUCRACY: Caught Short | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

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