Word: haven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...placed in the Ford archives in Dearborn, Mich, next spring, was exhibited in Washington. Among them was a letter written in the childish scrawl of his son, the late Edsel Ford, and dated 1901, two years before the first model T went into production: "Dear Santa Claus: I haven't had any Christmas tree in four years and I have broken my trim-ings [sic] and I want some roller skates and I want a book and I can't think of anything else. I want you to think of something else." Andre Marty, 65-year-old Marxist...
...Army Marshal Tukhachevsky refuses to confess, and is felled by a bullet from the NKVD chief, Nikolai Yezhov. Red Army Marshal Blucher is called before the Politburo, where Stalin praises him as a genius. Marshal Voroshilov sends Blucher a look, as if to say: "Deny it. Say you haven't any genius...
...Yankee Stadium. Twelve years ago, the Met attracted only half that number. The box-office increase is largely credited to the epigrammatical, blunt showman who for twelve years has been the museum's director: Francis Henry Taylor. Says Taylor: "Showmanship should never show. But if you haven't got it, you have the kiss of death...
...haven't hit anyone in the face with a pie in over two years," says Art Linkletter wistfully. He explains: "Radio and TV are in a do-good phase these days. Everybody's busy turning some unfortunate's life into a Cinderella story." As a veteran broadcaster, 40-year-old Art Linkletter skillfully rides the trends-:rom giveaways to guessing games. And expects to still be around with such shows as his House Party (weekdays, 2:45 p.m., CBS-TV and 3:15 p.m., CBS radio) and People Are Funny (Tues. 8 p.m., CBS radio) when...
...District's lawyers had a strange rebuttal. Congress established Washington's separate Negro schools in 1862 to "elevate" the ex-slaves, said Assistant Corporation Counsel Milton Korman. Washington Negroes have never had nonsegregated education, hence "they haven't enjoyed any right that has been taken away from them." Congress had repeatedly voted funds for separate schools and even for an assistant superintendent for Negro schools, so it has accepted segregation in fact, he said...