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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Committee hearing. Administrative Assistant Ralph L. Matthews was on the telephone talking long distance to Arkansas state police. After hanging up, Matthews led McClellan into the Senates private office. Said he: "This is the hardest thing I ever had to do, Senator, [pause] Jimmy is dead." McClellan blinked. "You mean my Jimmy?" Matthews nodded, filled in details. Onetime Army Pilot Jimmy McClellan, 30, a proficient light-plane flyer, was taking an examination for a multi-engine pilot's license, had at his CAA examiner's order feathered one engine of a Beechcraft to test his ability to handle...
...Cheam School outside of London. Cried the injured party: "Hey, Fatty, get off my foot!" A husky lad, His Royal Highness squared off and began throwing punches. It was all rather humiliating; but a few days later Charles got a name that sounded a good deal nicer than mean old Fatty...
...defense, Kirk replied that Egypt has had its own Ministry of Education since 1923 and could have produced such an increase long ago. In a dictatorship, he added, "literacy" can mean the "ability to read that stuff that falls into the hands of the people. The Devil, as we know, can quote Scripture for his purpose...
...director seems to thrive on challenges and obstacles, for once more he has taken a thorny classic and turned it into a viable and engrossing theatrical experience. The Merchant of Venice is a good play; but Kilty has made it seem like a great play, and this is no mean feat. One forgets that the play is poorly constructed and rather liberally endowed with passages where Shakespeare definitely nodded...
...creates] the sort of sensation that goes from the nape of your neck to the base of your spine when Yehudi Menuhin reaches the theme in the Bartok concerto. You know what I mean...