Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Third Man. Melodramatic skulduggery in postwar Vienna, written by Graham Greene and directed by Carol Reed; with Joseph Gotten, Orson Welles and Valli (TIME...
...Graham's North Carolina, such generosity of sentiment had not recently been in evidence. The campaign had been one of the roughest in the history of the South's most progressive state. Running as a Truman supporter for the Senate seat to which Governor W. Kerr Scott had appointed him, Graham had spent more of his time denying charges than dealing with positive issues...
...opponents charged him with Communist association with a zest worthy of Senator Joe McCarthy. Full-page ads howled that Graham was a supporter of FEPC, and that he had addressed unsegregated meetings. Voters were asked darkly if they wanted their sons working under a Negro foreman. Thousands received postcards mailed from New York City extolling what Graham had done for Negroes, with the signature: "W. Wite, executive secretary, National Society for the Advancement of the Colored Race."*Against such tactics Graham felt forced to play down his Fair Dealing as much as possible. Though he had served on Harry Truman...
Last week, in a record-breaking turnout, Graham won a precarious victory. He polled 295,000 votes to 245,000 for Corporation Lawyer Willis Smith. But Robert R. .("Buncombe Bob") Reynolds and a pig breeder named Olla Ray Boyd had polled a total of 62,000 votes between them-enough to deny Graham a majority and to force a runoff next month if Smith demanded it. Smith probably would...
...racked by the ups & downs of the market. Wall Street restaurants are probably the only ones in the world where the ulcer-treating diet of crackers & milk is listed as a specialty of the house. One eating place proudly lists six different combinations: a choice of sal tines or graham crackers with milk, half & half, or cream. At least one "they" expert was no longer operating: Frederick N. Goldsmith, who thought the comic strips disclosed what "they" were buying & selling and who peddled the tips in his market letter, has been banned from the street by New York State...