Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Davies, who had arrived in Little Rock from Fargo, N. Dak. only nine days before to take the bench of a judge who had retired. Curt, cool Judge Davies, 52, son of a small-town North Dakota' newspaper editor, got his law at Georgetown University, and practiced in Grand Forks (pop. 32,500) until President Eisenhower appointed him to the bench in 1955. Davies took just six minutes to order the school board to go ahead with its plans despite Governor Faubus. Said he: "Integration must begin forthwith...
...President Dave Beck appeared before the McClellan Committee last March, he took the Fifth Amendment on questions about his misuse of union funds, shrilly boasted that he would prove his innocence in a court of law. He will soon have his chance: last week in Tacoma, Wash. a federal grand jury charged Beck* with evading $184,000 in income taxes for 1951, 1952, 1953. Added to the $56,000 for 1950 charged in another indictment last May. this makes Beck...
...Turkey has been selected by Washington to launch a military intervention against Syria," proclaimed Communist Peking, and added that the U.S. intends "to isolate Egypt by forming a Mediterranean alliance consisting of a number of North African states, with Spain as its center." Actually, U.S. plans were considerably less grand than that. Washington's Middle East Expert Loy Henderson had been sent off to consult with Arab rulers and the Turks largely because the Turks, in particular, thought that the U.S. was taking too complacent an attitude about Syria. The U.S. is intent on staying in the background...
Alfred and Martha Stern, ducking extradition to the U.S. for grand-jury questioning about their activities as Communist spies, were gone from their high-walled, Spanish-colonial retreat in Mexico City (TIME, Sept. 2). But still in Mexico is a thriving colony of wealthy expatriates representing every shade in the Communist spectrum, from parlor pink to Moscow...
...Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keeffe-and few countries can boast even that much female talent. Nevertheless, with the increasing leisure of American womanhood and the enticement of painting as a hobby, women have an invitation to become popular artists. Grandma Moses has proved it possible, on a grand scale. And now Cape Cod's Alice Stallknecht, a spry, sturdy widow of 77, is seconding the nomination...