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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been removed and that the victim had a good chance for full recovery. But Harlem's leaders would be a long time forgetting that the hero who had escaped gun and bomb blasts in Alabama had narrowly missed being killed in the center of the North's largest Negro community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Accident in Harlem | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...most important major theatrical undertaking now going on in this country is the American Shakespeare Festival and Academy at Stratford, Connecticut. At last, Shakespeare is leaving the printed page; the man who bequeathed us the largest canon of great plays is beginning to get the respect he deserves from both the theatrical profession and the American public at large...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stratford, Connecticut; the Future of American Shakespearean Productions | 9/24/1958 | See Source »

...East African territory of Tanganyika (where Stanley found Dr. Livingstone) voted last week in their first election. Taken over by the Germans in 1884 in a fast deal with twelve tribal chiefs, Tanganyika passed under British mandate after World War I, and in 1946 became the U.N.'s largest trusteeship (362,688 sq. mi.). For a decade the British administrators prepared the way for last week's "experiment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TANGANYIKA: Hymn to Bwana Julius | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

After an anthem sung by the Choral Society, Mrs. Wilma A. Kerby-Miller, Dean of Instruction, extended the greetings of the administration to the assembled student body, and especially to the 313 members of the Class of 1962, Radcliffe's largest freshman class ever. Three students have also been admitted as sophomores in Radcliffe's first year of the advanced standing program...

Author: By Jean J. Darling, | Title: Cermony Marks Opening of 'Cliffe's Eightieth Year | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

...Lecture Hall--where the sectioning scramble will take place for Harvard's largest course, Economics 1, perrennial prerequisite of the political aware, painful for some, but universially enlightening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Trouble With Monday | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

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