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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neither the defendants nor their lawyers attempted the kind of sustained courtroom didos which kept the New York trial of Red leaders in turmoil (TIME, Jan. 31, 1949 et seq.). One Government witness, an ex-Communist named Louis Rosser, spiced up the proceedings by recalling that the party had continually urged him to "move in" with a "well-developed Communist woman," and picked five for his consideration before he finally married one. The Government produced one startling witness, a grey-haired little old lady named Daisy Van Dorn, who had eavesdropped while running the elevator in a San Francisco Communist...
...bands used to take their personality from the improvisations of the front men -Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, et al.-and the orchestrations had only to fit into the leader's style. Nowadays, most bands get their special character from the arranger's musical personality, and the musicians just sit there and play the notes he writes. The most recent and one of the most original of the arrangers' bands, launched last week by Victor: the combination of Ed Sauter, 37, who wrote such items as Benny Rides Again and Superman for Goodman, and Bill Finegan...
...interstate shipment. So Fair Traders started a new drive to amend the law to bring them into line. Prices on many items sold by other retailers would undoubtedly go up as Fair Traders cracked down on stores which had been selling at cut rates (TIME, June 4, 1951 et seq.). However, many a manufacturer with overloaded inventories has found that the only way to lure customers in was to let retailers cut prices. While consumer items remain so plentiful, Fair Traders may have a tough time making the new law stick...
...that changed after the end of World War II. Such weeklies as Britain's New Statesman and Nation and the New Republic in the U.S., or the left-wing Nation and the stoutly anti-Communist New Leader, have tangled in bitter squabbles (TIME, April 2, 1951 et seq.). The main issue: What is the proper liberal stand in the fight against Communism...
...Rhee demanded a constitutional amendment giving the people the right to choose their President. Korea's assemblymen refused to pass the amendment. Rhee countered by throwing many of his opponents in jail, sending his police to terrorize others, and threatening to dissolve the Assembly altogether (TIME, June 9, et...