Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dore Schary's new play succeeds both as drama and history. Dealing with Franklin Roosevelt's poliomyelitis attack, his recuperation, and his return to political prominence, Sunrise at Campobello not only relates the facts of this most striking of political careers, but also demonstrates real growth in several characters...
...actors contribute to this effect through very strong performances, as Mary Fickett as Eleanor, Henry Jones as Howe, and Ann Seymour as the stricken man's mother contend among themselves and for their own conceptions of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. What they need is more organization, and perhaps the act simply requires cutting...
TIME's first Man of the Year, young Charles Lindbergh, soloed across the Atlantic sky and opened the Air Age. Lindbergh's profile was followed by a gallery of men and women who somehow shaped the news for better or worse. Included were Franklin Roosevelt, Walter P. Chrysler, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and General Eisenhower...
...Infantile Paralysis to be honored in a hall of fame to be unveiled at Warm Springs, Ga. Leading the list of scientists is Jacob von Heine, first to describe the disease clearly in a book published in Stuttgart in 1840; windup man is inevitably Jonas E. Salk. The laymen: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Foundation President Basil O'Connor...
Since Ben Franklin stipulated that a portion of the money could be spent on Public works" after 100 years, the trusses in 1891 turned over three-fourths of le snowballing fund (then $424,945) to Boston, which eventually used the money to endow the Franklin Technical Institute. But Franklin had also stipulated that whatever capital might be left should accumulate interest for another 100 years till 1991, when it would be divided between Boston and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Last week, weary of sitting on a fortune that was doing nobody any good, the foundation's trustees filed...