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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that "at the end of the war not one of the 56 bridges leading into the city was still standing. Today we have the highest birth rate in Poland. We have built eight schools in the past year and are working on nine more." Like Jendza and Zielinski, most key men in the western territories are astonishingly young; more than half the population is under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: The Livid Scar | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...boss of the Brazilian armed forces, and democracy's strong right arm in Brazil. As he goes off for three weeks of sightseeing, mostly military, from Cape Canaveral to West Point to Fort Ord in California, the U.S. will get acquainted with the man who will play a key role-either as candidate or moderator-in Brazil's presidential election next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Democracy's Lott | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...agents in six states solved the puzzle of fraud in newspaper puzzle contests (TIME, March 9). In 86 minutes and twelve arrests they cracked the international racket that, by securing advance answers to the contests, swindled U.S. newspapers for more than a year. The transcontinental swoop bagged two key figures in Detroit: Walter Rex Johnston, 30, part-time car salesman whom the FBI identified as chief architect and brains of the swindle ring, and a key Johnston lieutenant, Harry H. Balk, 33, theatrical booking agent. Two Canadians who managed the flow of puzzle information were accused of using the mails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Solving the Puzzle | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...soon as he arrived last fall, Kristofferson began behaving exactly as he had done back at Pomona College, where he had earned a Phi Beta Kappa key, won conference recognition as a football end, commanded his R.O.T.C. battalion, won four out of 20 prizes in the Atlantic's collegiate short-story writing contest, played a top-chop game of Rugby, and kayoed an opponent in a Golden Gloves elimination fight before getting iced himself. At Oxford, Kris immersed himself in the dark waters of Anglo-Saxon, spent a few ergs of his seemingly inexhaustible reserve of energy playing Rugger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Old Oxonian Blues | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

Jerome D. Greene '96, a key administrator under three Harvard presidents and director of the 1936 Harvard Tercentenary, died at his Cambridge home on March 31, at the age of 84. The service for Mr. Greene, read by The Rev. Gardiner M. Day, was held last Tuesday at Memorial Church...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jerome D. Greene Dead at 84 | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

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