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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harry Truman played fortissimo also on his successor's foreign policy ("The present Administration has acted like an overbearing banker with a glass eye, not like a loyal and faithful friend to other nations"), on the U.S. missile lag and the possibility of a 5? postage stamp. But he was well pedaled down in one area: concerning civil rights he could only advise that "the Democratic Party must stand firmly and forthrightly for the full enjoyment and protection of civil rights . . . firm and foresighted leadership might accomplish this without calling out the Army for help." Seated way back...
...Their coming together," said Clarence Darrow, "was the means of their undoing. They had a weird, almost impossible relationship. Leopold, with his obsession of the superman, had repeatedly said that Loeb was his idea of the superman. He had the attitude toward him one had to his most devoted friend, or that a man has to a lover." Says Leopold of Loeb: "I thought so much of the guy that I was willing to do anything-even murder -if he wanted it bad enough." And Dickie Loeb wanted it bad enough...
...concert tour, she dropped into a Hamburg café one day, was spotted by an opera official. "That's exactly the kind of girl wre're looking for to sing Carmen," he said to his companion. "Pity she's not a singer." Said his companion, a friend of Vera's: "But she is-and besides she's a mezzo." Next day Soprano Little flew to West Berlin to audition for brilliant Opera Director Carl Ebert (TIME, Jan. 24, 1955), was hired to sing the title role in his new production of Carmen...
Died. Dr. Ernest Jones, 79, English disciple, friend, collaborator and biographer of Sigmund Freud; in London. Credited with awakening the English-speaking world to Freudian theories, Jones practiced psychoanalysis for 52 years, wrote the three-volume authoritative The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (TIME, Oct. 19, 1953; Sept...
...National Indignity." The Cat kept her appointments with Allied agents; at the close of a conversation, Bleicher would usually appear and arrest the victim. She watched her friends being carried away to prison, torture and death without emotion-though it is on record that she once said "Pardon" to a woman friend whom she had just betrayed. The Cat continued her broadcasts to London and because of phony messages sent in her name, the British failed to trap the warships Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen; and it was she who informed the Nazis of the approaching British Commando raid...