Word: fortnightlies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sharp things to say -but he had not written merely a political tract. Yet his message undercut the whole dogma of the socialist panacea, as Pasternak's Moscow editors worriedly said in their surprisingly mild 1956 letter of rejection, which was made public in Russia last fortnight...
Captain Armando Piedra, 40, pilot for Cubana airlines, was flying from Havana to the Cuban city of Cienfuegos eight months ago when rebels fighting for Fidel Castro popped up among the passengers, commandeered the plane, forced Piedra to head for Mexico. A fortnight ago it fell to Piedra, who is also a good amateur skin-diver, to dive to the sunken hull of a Cubana airlines Viscount that crashed and killed 17 of 20 passengers when rebel hijackers tried to force it to land near Cuba's Nipe Bay (TIME, Nov. 10). By last week, when Piedra took...
...came from a goose with a bad head cold reverberates through the living rooms of America, and America listens-and watches. The Arthur Murray Party and its nasal, admittedly amateurish M.C., Kathryn Murray, have somehow waltzed into one of the top-rated spots on nighttime TV. Fortnight ago, after CBS had spent weeks advertising The Case of Dr. Mudd on Desilu Playhouse, CBS's Trendex was 18.7, the Party's a cozy...
...second running of the sweepstakes this year, separate three-man juries in 22 countries (each with its own $1,000 national winner) were set up to ensure that only the best reached the finish line. Fortnight ago three top jurists (British Critic Sir Herbert Read, former Director General of French Museums Georges Salles and British Painter Morris Kestelman) were flown to Manhattan, repaired to a storage warehouse to inspect the final 114 oils and pick the grand-prize winner. "It was very quiet," chuckled Georges Salles. "We sat in three chairs like the three judges of Hell...
...overcrowded love nests, the juicy tidbit was irresistible. For sale by Freelance Reporter Lee Benson: the ghosted lament of auburn-haired, toothsome Jane Buckingham, 23, on-and-off model and nightclub hostess, who declared that she had reigned in the heart of Prince Shiv of Palitana until dethroned fortnight ago by another of Shiv's girls, slinky Hungarian Actress Eva Bartok...