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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...along with oldtimers from the statehouse were veteran legislators, judges and 15 county sheriffs. Since Democratic nominations are as good as election in Oklahoma, Edmondson (a mild Scotch-and-water man himself) and his friends set to organizing the new administration, which takes over Jan. 1. High on their list of things to do: hold the repeal vote...
After all the waiting, the names proved somewhat anticlimactic. "Respectable," said the London Times, rather unchivalrously, "but hardly exciting." Added the Daily Telegraph: "The list makes history -without unduly disturbing it." Absent were the expected names of sharp-tongued, Virginia-born Lady Astor, the first lady to sit in Britain's Parliament, and Lady Violet Bonham Carter, busy daughter of the late Prime Minister Sir Herbert Henry Asquith. Also missing: the Viscountess Rhondda, who died last week...
Died. Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko, 63, Russian satirist, who was at the top of the 1946 Soviet purge list of nonconforming authors; in Leningrad. The work singled out by the purgers was Adventures of a Monkey, the story of a marmoset that escapes from a zoo hit by a fascist bomb, awkwardly adapts to the Soviet society on the outside, at one point decides: "Oh, dear, it was silly to leave the zoo. You could breath more peacefully in the cage...
...Audience Measurement Ltd.), is now a serious contender for the ten regularly top-rated shows. In the most recent survey, the U.S. export oater called Wagon Train led the pack, followed by a typically British whodunit series (Murder Bag) featuring diabolically clever homicides. One other U.S. show made the list in the No. 10 spot: CBS's ad-lib courtroom drama, The Verdict Is Yours (TIME...
FOREIGN-CAR BOOM will boost Volkswagen production in West Germany from 470,000 cars last year to 630,000 in 1959. Waiting list for new VWs is five to six months long in Germany, four to 14 months...