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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thought you would like to know the sequel to the discovery, made through TIME'S Letters column [Nov. 20 et seq.], of the unknown Navy photographer who took the outstanding picture of the sinking carrier Franklin...
Helped the late General Jacques Leclerc rally French Equatorial Africa to the Free French banner. Became Commissioner of Colonies, later Minister of Finance. Broke with De Gaulle in 1947, forming his own small party, Union Democratique et Sociale de la Resistance, which stands between the Radical Socialists and the Socialists, favors limited industrial nationalization and state controls. Was Minister of National Defense under Premier Georges Bidault, has been Premier since July it in a moderate-leftist coalition government whose strength is much less than the sum of its parts...
Last week, in its most important antitrust decision since the basing-point case (TIME, May 10, 1948 et seq.), the U.S. Supreme Court disagreed with Judge Minton, who took no part in their deliberations in the case. In a 5-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that if the lower price was offered in "good faith" (i.e., to meet competition), then it was legal under the Robinson-Patman Act. "The heart of our national economic policy long has been faith in the value of competition," wrote Justice Harold Burton for the majority. "Congress did not seek by the Robinson-Patman...
...long fight to divorce moviemaking from exhibiting, the Justice Department won the third round of its bout with Hollywood's Big Five (TIME, May 17, 1948, et seq.) Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., following the lead of Paramount and RKO, last week agreed to split into two new companies. One will produce and distribute films, the other will show them. Under the consent decree, the three Warner brothers, Harry, Albert and Jack, and other members of the family will be permitted to hold stock in only one of the companies. To increase competition in certain cities, Warner also agreed that...
...Symphony No. 2 (Lukas Foss, pianist; the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Leonard Bernstein conducting; Columbia, 2 sides LP). Composer Bernstein took his inspiration for this work from Poet W. H. Auden's The Age of Anxiety; he seems to have taken his musical inspiration from Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, et al. Performance and recording: good...