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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marvel at people who are ready to buy Obnoxious paintings that offend the eye, Like Picasso's wanton practical joke, That's known as the "Lady with Artichoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 14, 1956 | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...child in Paris half a century ago, Marcel Dassault read science fiction and daydreamed that he would some day be a great inventor, turning his ideas into mechanical marvels that would bring glory to France. Unlike most daydreamers, Dassault was equipped with the talent and drive to turn fantasy into reality. At 23, only two years out of aeronautical school, he designed the propeller for the famed Spad fighter of World War I. At 60 he designed and built France's first topflight jet fighter, the sweptwing, transonic Mystère. Last week Dassault, now 64, showed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Daydreamer at Work | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

PROVIDENCE, Feb. 3--A last place Brown team and the two-week exam period lay-off combined forces tonight to hand the Crimson basketball team its most apathetic defeat of the season, 61 to 51, in the Marvel Gymnasium...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Brown Defeats Varsity Five For Initial Victory in League | 2/4/1956 | See Source »

...varsity basketball team, with a 6-6 record so far this season, opens the second half of its campaign tonight against Brown at Marvel Gymnasium, Providence. The game will start...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Basketball Team Journeys To Providence for Brown Contest | 2/3/1956 | See Source »

Given a glimmering of understanding of how powerfully the emotion runs, the marvel of today's debate in the South is how rigidly channeled it is into legal and constitutional molds. "You want your kids to go to school with niggers?" is an ugly question, but it is less ugly if the resulting action turns on constitutional science rather than mob violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: The Negative Power | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

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