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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...area half as big as a Texas county, should hold up European defense. Mayer's reply was that all outstanding issues between France and Germany should be settled before France enters a European Defense Community. On a long walk, he said, a small stone in a shoe can hurt as much as a large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Exploration | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

...with a force felt for 35 miles. For four hours, 105-and 155-mm. howitzer shells lobbed into Lewis. When the siege ended, nine houses, four barns and two business buildings were destroyed, 54 of the remaining 95 houses were damaged. Only two residents, both over 80, were hurt seriously enough to be hospitalized; no one was killed. When the blast came, almost everyone in Lewis was out of range, at an Eastern Star meeting in Masonic Hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANA: The Siege of Lewis | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

...Hurt!" At 2 a.m., two Chinese companies began attacking U.N. positions on the muddy, jagged slopes of "Little Gibraltar." Mortars and artillery pounded U.N. lines. At 4 a.m., Stanley and twelve other men from the 9th Infantry Regiment were sent crawling up Little Gibraltar, looking for wounded. Halfway up, Stanley and a South Korean soldier ran into two Chinese coming towards them with their hands up, as if to surrender. Suddenly, from a closed fist, one of the Chinese flipped a hand grenade. The grenade killed the Korean. Stanley hoisted his 20-lb. rifle to his shoulder and killed both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: The Lord & Private Stanley | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

Near him, a voice cried out: "Boy, I'm hurt!" Groping in the mud, Stanley found his battalion commander, Lieut. Colonel Harry Clark Jr. of Columbus, Ga. With another G.I., Stanley carried the wounded colonel into a nearby bunker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: The Lord & Private Stanley | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

...first big hit was in George Kelly's Craig's Wife. She had fought against taking the part of the frigid, too-neat Harriet Craig, because "I thought it would hurt me as a comedienne." It may have hurt her: six pictures later, she all but missed getting the rich, sharp-tongued comedy part of Sylvia Fowler in Clare Boothe's The Women. Director George Cukor doubted that Ros was comedienne enough for the role. She met the challenge with her usual determination by acting one scene from the script in six different comedy ways. Cukor gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Comic Spirit | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

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