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...this phenomenon lasted only four seconds. However, the tenor explained that the furniture and tapestries were the cause of the failure, not his voice. The group now has its business office there. Typewriters and an occasional alumni sing resound in the room which once rang with cannons and court-martial, songs and firebells, actors and legislators, explosions and saws. Such noises would have shocked Mrs. Holden, but in another two centuries the chapel may once again echo sermons...

Author: By Henry Gritt, | Title: Changing Chapel | 3/15/1955 | See Source »

Married. Lili St. Cyr (real name: Marie van Schaack), 36, blonde stripteaser; and Ted Jordan, 28, Hollywood and Broadway bit actor (The Caine Mutiny Court Martial); she for the fifth time, he for the third; in Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 7, 1955 | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

...officials for Formosans, irrespective of their abilities. Incited by there resulting inflation and the oppressive Chinese government, the Formosans rebelled in 1947. The uprising was brutally surprised-nearly ten thousand Formosans lost their lives-but it did lead to a more enlightened rule until 1949, when Chiang again restored martial law temporarily to the island...

Author: By Duncan H. Cameron, | Title: Formosan Unity | 3/3/1955 | See Source »

Died. Kim Sung Soo, 64, onetime (1951-52) Vice President of South Korea, head of the anti-Syngman Rhee Democratic Nationalist Party; of palsy; in Seoul, Korea. Kim resigned as Vice President as a protest against Rhee's declaration of a state of martial law in 1952 and his penchant for jailing National Assembly critics of his government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 28, 1955 | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

...road company of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, starring loquacious Actor Paul Douglas as loquacious Captain Queeg, wound up its tour of the South seven weeks ahead of schedule. Reason: Mutiny Producer Paul Gregory feared "a big dip" at Dixie box offices because Philadelphia-born Douglas blabbed to a North Carolina reporter (TIME, Feb. 7) that the South "stinks" and is "a land of sowbelly and segregation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 21, 1955 | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

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