Word: jameses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In Washington, scrappy James K. Vardaman Jr., 64, St. Louis banker who fought with the Navy at Sicily and Okinawa in World War II and ended his active service as Naval Aide (with the rank of commodore) to Crony Harry Truman, submitted his resignation as one of the seven members...
Novelist James (Some Came Running) Jones settled down with Wife Gloria (a onetime stand-in for Marilyn Monroe) in a three-room Paris walk-up overlooking the Seine, worked mornings on his latest novel about Jazz Guitarist Bjango Reinhardt, kept afternoons free to match wits with electric pinball machines in...
Goaded by protests from abroad and a telegram from Secretary of State Dulles, Alabama's Governor James E. Folsom called to his office Negro Yardman Jimmie Wilson, 55, condemned to die by an all-white jury for robbing a white widow of $1.95 (TIME, Sept. 1), commuted his death...
In the friendly confines of a Y.M.C.A. meeting, TV Actor Ben Alexander, Dragnet's heavy-footed Sergeant Frank Smith, in real life a solid businessman and parent (three children), rapped out his private A.P.B. on a teen idol, the late Cinemactor James Dean: "This ruthless, selfish, egotistical young fool...
Bans & Brickbats. It seems strange that such views, widely accepted now, should have caused an uproar. But Married Love was published in 1918. Though it soon became a runaway bestseller in Britain, it remained banned in the U.S, as obscene until 1931, when Judge John M. Woolsey cleared it. (He...