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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dulles tried with U.S. allies, with the U.N., to work out a solution and failed. But when Britain, France and Israel launched a sudden attack against Egypt without notice to the U.S., Dulles took the toughest stand for principle of his career. Said he, extemporaneously, in one of his finest speeches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JOHN FOSTER DULLES: A Record Clear and Strong For All To See | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

...missed the bull's-eye by not including details on the tops of all the "Galahads," the most able, the finest voice, the most thoughtful star of them all-Robert Horton of Wagon Train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 20, 1959 | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

Almost the Best. Last week, by his own exuberant calculation, Librarian Randall had "the finest collection of rare books between the coasts. It isn't as good as the Houghton Library at Harvard, and it's not as good as the Yale collection. We come right after Yale." Says Yale's Rare Book Curator Herman W. Liebert of Randall's library: "First rank-one of the outstanding in the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Indiana's Bookman | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...except stupidity." Both writers had cause for complaint: stupidity, their own or that of others, landed them in jail.* In this head-shaking book, Author Paul Tabori notes that man's incurable doltishness has managed to fill the prisons and crowd the executioner's block with the finest intelligences the human race could produce. A partial list: Plato, Socrates, Seneca, Boethius, Cervantes, Sir Walter Raleigh, Daniel Defoe, Voltaire, Beaumarchais, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Verlaine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: As Vast as Mankind | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...facts, ignored by one and all (including the low and callous Boston sports scribes), speak for themselves. Boston has the best left-fielder and batsman in baseball, Ted Williams, the best rightfielder in baseball, Jackie Jensen, the best third baseman in baseball, Frank Malzone, the finest clutch performer and general handyman in the league, Pete Runnels, plus a large number of reliable sidemen...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: American League: Red Sox Forever; Tigers, White Sox May Challenge | 4/10/1959 | See Source »

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