Word: ets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sixteen months ago (TIME, April 27, 1953 et seq.), Grunewald pleaded guilty to a contempt of Congress charge (based on his earlier refusal to answer questions), paid a maximum fine of $1,000 but beat a 90-day jail rap. On the new indictment, the name-dropping, high-flying Dutchman, a frisky sexagenarian, faces possible prison time...
...world, TIME did not take the opportunity to call attention to the insensate despot that now rules the U.S., Russia, France and England. This despot is the H-bomb. Its power is so great that it can cause mutual destruction . . . I believe most Americans (except Senator Knowland, et al.) would regret very much to have this happen...
With that ruling. Judge Meyer threw out of court a $51,750,000 damage suit brought by 23 actors and writers against 16 film studios, 20 top Hollywood executives (Samuel Goldwyn et al.) and three motion-picture trade groups. In 1951 the House Un-American Activities Committee questioned 18 of the 23 about Communism, and they refused to answer. The other five boldly ignored the committee's subpoenas. All were blacklisted. Each of the 23, including Oscar-winning Actresses Gale Sondergaard and Anne Revere and Oscar-winning Writer Michael Wilson, demanded $2,250,000 in "damages for loss...
Bernard Peiffer et Son Trio (Norgran LP). French Pianoman Peiffer (rhymes with May fair) plays as playfully as Erroll Garner or George Shearing, occasionally as gaily as Tatum. Unoriginal, but pleasant listening...
...times . . . I'm mad . . . I'll fight to the death-even if I have to fly back here [i.e., London] from California." Harry Truman, after 19 days in the Kansas City Hospital, where he had survived a major operation and a dangerous infection (TIME. June 28 et seq.), checked out at 5:30 one morning, drove home to a quiet breakfast on the screened porch...