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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Following TIME'S Dec. 16 review of Come To Me, a friend wrote: "I'm sure you've canceled your subscription to TIME." On the contrary, I find myself reinstating my TIME subscription which lapsed years ago. The reason: your current practice of reviewing TV's live dramatic programs. At a time when TV drama is suffering, TIME'S attention to individual plays is a fine practice...
...Attention. Von Braun returned to Peenemünde to rain V-2 ruin on London (when the first V-2 smashed London, Spaceman von Braun remarked to a friend that the rocket had worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet). But the war was already lost for Nazi Germany. Caught between the advancing Russian and U.S. armies, Von Braun and most of his tried, tested rocket team decided to go with the West. They fueled trucks with rocket alcohol and headed south. Von Braun had printed official-looking stickers with the mysterious letters VZBV-standing for some fictional...
Better Than Most. When Saturday came. Giuseppina Mettlica's working neighbors were free to visit her. Astorria Alessi was led to bed No. 33, where Giuseppina's chart hung. But the woman looked different. Besides, protested Astorria. "my friend came in a pink underskirt." At mention of this garment, one of the volunteers recalled: "The patient who died in bed No. 19 was buried in a pink underskirt." Now at last the volunteers understood why the woman in bed No. 33 had muttered protests when they called her Giuseppina. She was in fact Anna Bianca Battachi...
...collection, Freer was inspired, in part, by Painter James McNeill Whistler, who was his fast friend. Aroused by Whistler's love for Oriental art, Freer began to decorate his home with Japanese scrolls, Korean metalworks, Chinese bronzes. He made frequent trips to the Orient, bought only the best. In 1904 he offered his whole collection to the Government with two conditions: that the Smithsonian Institution would manage it and that he could keep it until his death. He set up a trust fund to expand the Oriental collections (he prohibited expanding his American art), then gave another...
Heirline. In Milwaukee, Jack Gasdorf, 34, accused of keeping a wife and three children in one spot, a girl friend and two children in another, explained, "I'm an expert liar," said he felt no anxieties about prison because "I always wanted a short haircut...