Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recently TIME Correspondent Ramelle MaCoy of our Bonn Bureau drove into Russian-occupied East Germany to visit the Leipzig international trade fair. After his trip, he reported the impact his American automobile had made on East German audiences...
...plastic-topped "Skyliner" Ford (blue and ivory) was unquestionably one of the biggest hits of the Leipzig fair. It was rivaled only by a Rolls-Royce and a two-toned Oldsmobile convertible that arrived in Leipzig just before I left...
...fair grounds one day I parked next to the gate. When I returned, the ticket taker told me he had to abandon his post to keep people from crawling all over "your beautiful car." In fact, so many people fondled the car I figure I'll be able to sell it to Intelligence -the fingerprints of half the Communists in East Germany must...
...also received a description from TIME Correspondent Keith Wheeler on what happened when Cinerama hit the international trade fair at Damas cus. You'll recall that in an earlier story (TIME, Sept. 13) on this Damascus fair, TIME reported that the official first-night audience didn't quite know how to take Cinerama, adding that "the real test would come" when the Syrian people got to see the show. I found Wheeler's report on "the real test" particularly interesting, having spent a great deal of time in Damascus during the war. Wrote Wheeler...
...program there was some singing of Harvard songs, Wintergreen and a Technicolor-Cinemascope-Stereophonic version of "Stars and Stripes Forever." When the program closed with "Fair Harvard," an audience, grateful for a wonderful, swinging evening, was again convinced that Harvard has the best band in the country...