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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Item: Dulles. The President then underwent some thoroughly intensive questioning on a troublesome issue, the LIFE article about Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' views of how full-scale war was averted...
...Item: Ridgway. As the President expected, a reporter brought up another troublesome issue: General Matthew B. Ridgway's attack in the Satevepost upon the Eisenhower Administration's defense policies. The President dismissed, abruptly, General Ridgway's contention that domestic politics influenced the reduction of the U.S. Army: "Well, first, if ever I have made a military decision out of deference to internal politics then I have been guilty of violating my own best determinations. I am determined never in that field to be influenced by such a thing." The President advised his questioners to check with Defense...
...Item: Industrialist James Gority, late of Adrian, Michigan, has bequeathed $5,000 to Notre Dame to make available to undergraduates courses in golf and bridge. Mr. Gority considered a knowledge of these games a real asset...
...your Dec. 26 item, dealing with the cause of Napoleon's death, it seems odd that the French magazine Arts, which now charges the English with inventing a verdict of cancer to suppress news of a tropical disease contracted on St. Helena, doesn't know that the same charge was made in 1937 by Raoul Brice, Lieut. General of the French Army, in a book called The Riddle of Napoleon. He says the malady was an abscess of the liver complicated by amebic dysentery contracted on the island-approximately the sense of your article. He also flatly accuses...
After listening to Specs O'Keefe, a Suffolk County grand jury speedily indicted the entire gang on 148 counts. The indictments came just four days before the Massachusetts statute of limitations expired.* Still notably missing, though, was one important item of evidence. Not a penny of the missing millions has been recovered...