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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Davy Crockett (Disney; Buena Vista) has already been seen twice on TV; its theme song brays steadily from the nation's jukeboxes; coonskin hats, flintlock muskets and some 100 other Crockett-inspired products flood U.S. stores (TIME, May 23). Now at last, the film has reached movie theaters, but its belated arrival is far from an anticlimax. Technicolor and the wide screen combine to make this classic tale of derring-do bigger and better than ever. The episodic story has been shortened by 40 minutes but not changed: Davy still fights the Creek War, gets elected to Congress, dies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 13, 1955 | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

...attract junior Faculty members--would be for the University to subsidize the building itself, and thereby lower the rent of the $75-$85 which these men can afford. Yet this would be an expensive proposition at a time when other more important projects are on the drydocks awaiting the flood of Corporation cash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shady Situation | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

Brower's decision to relax the rule came as a result of near record temperatures in the high 80's and a consequent flood of requests from members of Adams House. He followed a precedent set by his predecessor, the late David M. Little '17, who introduced dining hall informality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams, Leverett Will Lose Informal Dining Privileges | 5/27/1955 | See Source »

...Cried Flood, a witness at a recent Yucca Flat atomic test: "We were not back in these dens of sin and iniquity in Las Vegas. We were in the trenches with the troops. That is the last time I will try that one. The next time it is Las Vegas for me, too." When his amendments were beaten, Flood went along with the bill on final passage. The vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Backfire | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

...Artists. Both are, in the main, muffled echoes of yesteryear. By contrast, Brooklyn Museum's aggressively progressive International Water Color Exhibition, showing the works of no U.S. artists plus a selection of French and Japanese water-colorists, is clear evidence that the abstractionist tide is still in full flood, with no ebb in sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Postwar Decade | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

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