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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the time of its publication in our issue of January 23, TIME's cover story on Mark III, the automatic computing machine, has continued to make news. Newspapers around the world carried stories on it. The important Soviet bi-weekly journal Literaturnaya Gazeta even devoted part of its May 4 issue to a splenetic, windy attempt to knock MarkIII's mechanical brains out. And now it has turned up in the never-never world of the funnies...
Weeks ago a computing machine strangely reminiscent of Mark III appeared in Milton Caniff's daily newspaper comic strip, Steve Canyon. It developed that an American traitor named Ganglia was trying to turn the machine over to the Russians in far-off China. After some harrowing episodes Canyon and his ex-secretary, Feeta-Feeta, managed to frustrate the effort...
Several TIME readers wondered whether Mark III had inspired Canyon's latest adventure. Having a kind of proprietary interest in this comic strip,* we telephoned Caniff to ask if it were so. He said: "Sure...
President Conant will introduce Kenneth C.M. Sills, president of Bowdoin, who will moderate a symposium to be held after the meal. Participating in the discussion will be James P. Baxter III '14 of Williams, Henry M. Wriston of Brown, and Leonard Carmichael of Tufts-all alumni of University graduate schools...
...Other illustrious descendants of John and Abigail: grandson Charles Francis Adams, Abraham Lincoln's Civil War minister to the Court of St. James's; great-grandsons Henry Adams and Brooks Adams, historians; great-great-grandson Charles Francis Adams III, yachtsman, banker, and Secretary of the Navy...