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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inventory Item. In Chicago, police received a letter: "I wish to report that. . . I was in Chicago and had my car busted into . . . Someone stole a guitar, 8 lbs. of Brazilian peanuts, four pairs of socks, one shirt, one muffler, six cartons of cigarettes, one dress suit, and twelve cans of sardines' . . . Mrs. J. Webb. P.S.: My husband is missing...
...last week: the Philadelphia Museum. What's more, a prime version of another historymaker, Brancusi's abstract sculpture, Bird in Space, alighted in the same spot. These headliners were just a part of one of the most superb School-of-Paris collections ever made, the 1,000-item, $2,000,000 life-work of Walter Arensberg, 72, rich California scholar, and his wife Louise. Their collection, which fills their servantless Los Angeles house from floor to ceiling (and which includes pre-Columbian sculpture), will move to Philadelphia as soon as the museum readies 19 new rooms...
...This AP item went out over a regional wire covering most of the New England and Middle Atlantic states; it reached New York City in time to make the next day's afternoon papers. All of them printed it, and all of the wire editors who handled the story pencilled out the "purportedly...
Last week Ike got his industrial counterpart. To William Rogers ("Rod") Herod, a large, amiably impatient man of 52, president of International General Electric Co., Inc., went the post of Coordinator of Industrial Production of the twelve NATO nations. Herod would have to decide what defense item each NATO member could best produce, then get it produced so that the West's armies would have the largest possible flow of tanks, mess kits, T-shirts, drawn from twelve nations. It was a unique job. Generals had commanded international armies before; never before had there been a Herod investigating foreign...
...hand-split lath; $100 for enough bricks to face an ordinary fireplace. In addition, the commission was preparing special souvenir kits containing chunks of wood suitable for gavel-making or a handmade nail and a piece of stone which could be set in plastic for a paperweight. Each item will be accompanied by a metal tag certifying that it is a true piece of the White House...