Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rodgers & Hammerstein 1957 TV musical starring Lesley Warren (who played the ingénue lead in Broadway's 110 in the Shade) as Cinderella, Stuart Damon as the prince, Ginger Rogers as the queen, Walter Pidgeon as the king, Celeste Holm as the fairy godmother, and Jo Van Fleet as the stepmother. Color...
...Pearl Harbor headquarters of Admiral Ulysses S. Grant Sharp Jr., the supreme U.S. commander in the Pacific (TIME cover, Aug. 14). Sharp was discussing the attack with his aides when the amber light on his dialless gold telephone flashed on. Wheeler wanted to make sure that the Seventh Fleet was ready. Sharp assured him that...
Sipping Blood. The prospect can hardly be pleasing to Fleet Street; painful experience has long since taught British papers the wisdom of living within the rules. After the 1949 arrest of John George Haigh, who was accused of killing women and sipping goblets of their blood, the Daily Mirror chose to publish all the available gory details. The paper took care to disassociate its accounts of the VAMPIRE HORROR IN LONDON from the Haigh story, but no one was really deceived. Haigh was convicted and executed, but as a result of his suit against the Mirror, the newspaper was fined...
...proposal to strengthen the rules stems from a 1958 inquiry into the rights of criminal defendants, which the government dusted off without warning or explanation. If the proposal becomes law, Fleet Street will be prohibited from even reporting pretrial arraignments-the first court step in an accused man's progress to the dock. This fresh threat to journalistic freedom drew only a scattered response. The Guardian seconded the government's motion: "It is obvious that jurors who sit to hear a case in which evidence on one side has already been widely reported are not coming to court...
...boundary between Westminster and the City, the gun carriage entered the ancient section of London that had been heavily bombed by Nazi planes and was heartened on those long-ago, smoky, red-eyed mornings by the inspiring Churchill presence poking defiantly among the ruins. The cortege moved on through Fleet Street, home of London's press, and then up Ludgate Hill to the strains of Chopin's Funeral March...