Word: louise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the tradition set by Bovard, P-D staffers, whose salaries are as high as any newspaper in the U.S., keep aloof from outside organizations, rarely accept invitations to pressagents' parties, return gifts that are sent to them, pay their way wherever they go. The PD, which in 1951...
The Conquest of Everest (Countryman Films; United Artists) is a film record, in full color, of the 1953 expedition led by Colonel (now Sir) John Hunt of the British army, which succeeded, where five others had failed, in reaching the top of the world's highest mountain (29,002...
Decameron Nights. Spicy stories by Boccaccio; with Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan (TIME, Nov. 16).
The most successful adventure stories had a personal-narrative quality that challenged the year's best fiction. Two of the best, and bestselling as well, were by Frenchmen: Maurice Herzog's thriller about the scaling of Annapurna (see CINEMA) and J. Y. Cousteau's eerily poetic description...
There was a falling-off of books on World War II, at least of useful ones, but a few were important and and a a handful readable. Sir Winston Churchill wound up his great six-volume history of the war with Triumph and Tragedy, which carried events from the Normandy...