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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other words, Dwight Eisenhower had adopted T.R.'s maxim: "Speak softly and carry a big stick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Speak Softly | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

Light heavyweight Champion Archie Moore, mentally upset by a suit filed by his wife today, still was a 2 to 1 favorite to defeat Joey Maxim for the third time in succession when they clash in a 15-round title bout at the outdoor Miami Stadium tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Sports | 1/27/1954 | See Source »

Boxing (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS radio & TV). For the light heavyweight championship: Archie Moore v. Joey Maxim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Jan. 25, 1954 | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

When a man is Vice President in Tito's Yugoslavia, a maxim for staying on good terms with the boss is: never, never poll more votes than the President. In the election last November, Milovan Djilas, No. 3 man in the Yugoslav hierarchy and one of its four Vice Presidents, broke the rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: The Rest Is Silence | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

Last spring, the Rockefeller Foundation decided to take some of the teeth out of this old composers' maxim, and began by bestowing a $400,000 grant on the Louisville Orchestra to enlarge that orchestra's program for commissioning and performing new works. One afternoon last week, while a goodly portion of the upper-middlebrow musical world waited for news of the proceedings, Louisville launched the new series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Louisville Begins | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

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