Word: m
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a checkbook, but he made it. He is in the theater. And his contribution is unique. You described him the opening night of a hit. Closing night of a flop tells a lot more. He blew in from somewhere (London? Washington? Detroit?) to catch the author. "I'm glad...
Perhaps Mr. Richard M. Alpher, who wrote [Oct. 6] about making "your stupid Southerners stupider," should come South to school to learn the proper use of the comparative form of the word "stupid." How can we come to mutual understanding when we have such people, who are blatant, ungracious, prejudiced and ignorant...
...Pennsylvania Democrats, among their gains in House seats, picked up President Eisenhower's home district, where James M. Quigley, 40, defeated S. Walter Stauffer and gained back the seat that Stauffer won from him two years...
...Republican districts to add to the gains they started with last month's Maine election. In New York they picked up a seat apiece in the normal Republican strongholds of Buffalo and Schenectady; in Kentucky's Third District (Louisville) State Legislator Frank W. Burke, 38, defeated John M. Robsion, who went to Washington six years ago on Dwight Eisenhower's coattails...
...Aroused. Not since Russian troops crushed the Hungarian rebellion had world opinion been so repelled by a Soviet action. In London 14 distinguished writers, ranging across the political spectrum from T. S. Eliot and E. M. Forster to Bertrand Russell and J. B. Priestley, wired the Soviet Writers' Union not to dishonor the great Russian literary tradition by "victimizing a writer revered by the entire civilized world." In Paris, François Mauriac, Albert Camus and Jules Romains expressed their disgust. The Authors League of America cabled that the U.S. writers most popular in Russia were "those who interpreted...