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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people of the world must use the force of public opinion to make world leaders negotiate on a basis of peace," Helen Gahagan Douglas said last night in the Harvard Freedom Council's ceremonies commemorating the first anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution, "and we Americans must educate them to do this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Congresswoman, Hungarian Speak at Commemoration of Revolt | 10/24/1957 | See Source »

...Helen Hayes's brilliant performance fits into this spirit nearly perfectly, which is not really surprising, although playing an exaggeratedly gay, moderately mad French aristocrat might have seemed a bit beyond her great scope and skill. She triumphs, as usual. Her gestures are a catalogue of how to act; her bright eyes and posed postures handle comedy with a great flourish...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: Time Remembered | 10/24/1957 | See Source »

...first seems to be a French Alice in Wonderland, but soon ties some reality to the originally puzzling circumstances. A young milliner finds herself on a Brittany estate where an ice cream man sell no ice cream, a cab driver keeps rabbits in his ivy-grown cab, and Helen Hayes, looking like a magnificent ninety-year-old Mad- woman of Chaillot, sweeps in and out of the reception room, ecstatically explaining nothing. It shortly becomes clear that the Duchess (Helen Hayes) has in various ways frozen time, for the sake of her melancholy nephew the prince (Richard Burton), by recreating...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: Time Remembered | 10/24/1957 | See Source »

...Helen Gahagan Douglas, former Broadway star and Democratic representative from California, will be the featured speaker of the Harvard Freedom Council's commemoration of the first anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution, tonight at 8 o'clock in New Lecture Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freedom Council Features Speech Of Mrs. Douglas | 10/23/1957 | See Source »

Other citizens began contributing five-and ten-dollar bills for a memorial to Helen Momita at the Los Angeles Buddhist temple. When he was consulted about it, Harry asked that the money be used instead to help fulfill a long-standing dream of Calipatrians : to build a 184-ft. flagpole so that the American flag could fly at sea level above "the lowest-down city in the Western Hemisphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: High-Flying Flag | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

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