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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MOSCOW, Oct. 29--Georgi K. Zhukov will get another job "according to his experience and qualifications,...but we have not decided" what it will be, Communist boss Nikita S. Khrushev said tonight. Speaking at a Turkish embassy reception, he declined to explain why Russia's top soldier was dismissed as defense minister...
...contact with Gerald Warburg. Four years later, Mr. Warburg "remembered," and said that if we weren't able to have a feature film of Casals we should at least have a modest record of his performance for posterity. I agreed, of course, and he prevailed with the Eda K. Loeb Fund, through the Mannes College of Music, to commission me to make the little film. I fondly wish there were some way that Warburg and the Loeb Fund could get proper credit − and TIME...
With the services competing hotly, the U.S. had upwards of 40 assorted missiles under development by 1950, when Defense Secretary George Catlett Marshall called in Chrysler Corp.'s gruff President K. T. Keller to bring order out of the chaos. Despite service wails and groans, Keller canceled more than half the missile projects. But after he left the Pentagon in 1953, no overall missile boss with equal authority and toughness succeeded him, and the services promptly started backsliding into uncurbed competition...
...succession of triumphs. No fewer than 28 major museums in 16 states contributed to the exhibition, and of its 54 canvases more than half are outright masterpieces. Seen in a body, they bring home with tremendous impact the vast and varied achievements of American painting. Said Harris K. Prior, director of the American Federation of Arts, in a foreword to the Wildenstein show: "Americans are finally accepting their art at its face value, as a valid part of a mature culture...
MOSCOW, Oct. 27--The stark announcement of the removal of Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov as Soviet defense chief appeared to Westerners here today to reflect more than anything else the supreme confidence of Nikita Khrushchev that he is boss...