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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...view, the risks are outweighed by the opportunities. If the Russians (as he said at his press conference) now show themselves to be "reasonable, logical men," the first reversal in the eleven-year-old East-West armaments race might be in sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Green Light for Stassen | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

...even the head croupiers puzzled. Playing their sixth tie game in four weeks, at a husky $3,500 a point, Greenwich Village Artist Jim Snodgrass, 34, and Medical Research Consultant Hank Bloomgarden, 28, both answered correctly a ten-point question on European royalty, then went for the tough eleven-pointer: Name the five groups of bones in the human spinal column (see diagram). A onetime pre-med student, Snodgrass began with a noun, "sacrum," was ruled out by M.C. Jack Barry, whose answer card listed the adjective "sacral." Then Bloomgarden ticked off "sacral," "cervical," "thoracic," "lumbar" and "coccyx," was abruptly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Battle of the Bones | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

Next day the network offered its "sincere apologies for any personal distress resulting from this telecast," scrapped kinescopes that would have carried the interview to eleven of the 79 stations handling the show, gave Parker and Hamilton an offer-which they scorned-of equal time on Wallace's show. Parker and Hamilton, shrewd cops with good records (whose names are familiar to viewers of Jack Webb's Dragnet), filed complaints of criminal libel against Cohen and his TV hosts both in Los Angeles and Manhattan. Parker announced that he would sue all concerned, including sponsor Philip Morris. Also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Important Story | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

Encores Away. In Los Angeles, after scrambling in and out of a blazing apartment house helping two mothers and their eleven children to safety, Earl Livingston refused one mother's request that he dash back in once more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 3, 1957 | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

Opening a collection of short stories by a new writer is often like dipping into a sample box of chocolates : the unwary are apt to be brought down by a surfeit of soft centers or too many brandied cherries. In this book there is no such hazard. Its eleven stories are all rock-hard and novel in flavor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Promise from the Heartland | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

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