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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farm at Gettysburg next afternoon, rode around in Eisenhower's electric golf cart, Churchill wearing a ten-gallon hat, inspecting Eisenhower's butterfat Black Angus cattle. They sat on the glassed-in sun porch discussing the famous battle. Then Eisenhower took Churchill hedgehopping in the helicopter along Lee's line of advance down the Cashtown Road, along the left flank of Pickett's charge, down the Union position from Cemetery Hill to Round Top. Churchill, old Civil War buff, discussed divisions and division commanders with sure style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Old Friend | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

Born. To Philip Crosby, 24, son of Bing, twin brother of Dennis, and Sandra Jo Drummond, 20: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Dixie Lee (after Philip's late mother). Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 18, 1959 | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...What do you mean 'but?'" Jack Bowles continued the attack. "Maybe you are going to say that this happens only in the southern and "border" states? Or that this is only true of Negroes? Just remember what happened to the Korean-American, Sammy Lee. This athlete twice won gold medals for the U.S.A. in diving at the Olympic Games. The President himself sent him on a tour in the Far East. And why? So he would be an example of the absence of racial discrimination in America. And what happened to him when he came back? Because of the color...

Author: By Kent Geiger, | Title: Soviet Article "Reports" Student Exchange | 5/15/1959 | See Source »

...strong second in the early going, Tomy Lee took the lead in the backstretch but dropped back to second behind Sword Dancer at the mile mark. Admitted Jockey Willie Shoemaker: "I thought we were through. I hollered to Willie Boland (on Sword Dancer), 'I hope you win it.'" But Tomy Lee shrugged off his breeding, roared back in the last dozen strides to win by a nose. He was the first foreign-born horse to win the derby since 1917. His archenemy, First Landing, was a well-beaten third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Turner's Tomy | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A timely item in a drama series that so far has been a sharp disappointment. Current entry: a play with Lee Marvin and E. G. Marshall about the first men in space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, may 11, 1959 | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

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