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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shoemaking plant from odd-job boy to vice-president, built a fortresslike house on the right bank of the Lackawaxen River (one small bridge later named after Lyman). Poorer kids ate butter, but the Lemnitzer boys got their bread dry or lard smeared. They dutifully did their chores (dishwashing, lawn mowing), earned their spending money at part-time jobs. Lyman clerked at Mike Bergstein's Main Street store, developed an Army-useful talent for shortening pants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Forces on the Ground | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...Minister Nehru last week cantered up a road in the hill resort of Mussoorie. Looking as fit as a much younger man and wearing a red rose in his buttonhole, 69-year-old Jawaharlal Nehru dismounted at Birla House, a large English-style cottage, and strode across the green lawn in the glittering afternoon sunshine that drenched the surrounding fir trees and the distant snowy peaks of the Himalayas. A line of Tibetan officials bowed to Nehru, presented him with an armload of ceremonial white scarves. The curtains parted in the main doorway, and out stepped the smiling Dalai Lama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Adventurous Life | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...defense attorney, Orson Welles manages to combine physical impressiveness with a Lincolnesque humor and humanity. "What do you plan to do about those burning crosses on your lawn?" ask the reporters...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: Compulsion | 4/15/1959 | See Source »

...left for the States," recalled Jorge Harten, president of the Peruvian Tennis Federation, "two other friends and myself were the only ones who came to see him off. The Lima Lawn Tennis Club had not even let him train on its courts; he was not good enough for them." Last week Alejandro ("Alex" in the U.S.) Olmedo, 23, went home to Peru for the first time since he won the Davis Cup for the U.S. almost single-handed in Brisbane last December. This time what looked like all of Lima tumbled out to wave Peruvian flags printed with his picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: The Life Member | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...said in a note) not to return till he made good. A week later police found him in Salt Lake City, barefoot, hungry and broke. He had started out with $15, the last $2 of which someone had stolen from him while he was sleeping on a lawn in Utah. Bitterly, "Pat" Knopf noted that only truck drivers had helped him ("The rest of the people are a bunch of damned snobs") in his hitchhike attempt to reach Reno, where he "knew a lot of rich people" and hoped to get started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Enter Pat & Pals | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

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