Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there was to be no escape. Police curtly took up his passport, sent the girl home, and escorted Duarte back to his luxurious apartment. He called in some pals, and until after midnight, sounds of laughing and drinking came from the rooms. Apparently, after the guests left, Juan Duarte concluded that it was time to check out. His valet found him in the morning with a bullet in his chest...
...After midnight, when most television has gone off the air. radio is really coming into its own. To prove its confidence in after-midnight radio, American Airlines Inc. last week went on the air with the first all-sponsored network midnight-to-dawn music program. In Manhattan. CBS radio will carry Music 'til Dawn from midnight to 5:30 a.m. Monday through Saturday. Five other CBS stations (in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.) will operate their own Music 'til Dawn for American Airlines, but on an independent basis. Format: light recorded music, news, local...
Almost fully recovered from his long bout of winter illness, Pope Pius XII was back last week at his hard-working routine. He was up in the morning at 6:30, and often the light in his study above St. Peter's Square was burning at midnight. Yet Eugenio Pacelli, still as slim and erect as a brigadier in the 15th year of his reign, is also in the 78th year of his life, and so, among Rome's churchmen, the talk is of his successor...
...January 1936, the Queen wrote in the diary that her husband had kept each day for almost 56 years: "King George V was much distressed at the bad writing above, and begged me to write his diary for him next day. He passed away ... at five minutes before midnight...
Nairobi, the colony's capital, has not really been touched much by the war the white settlers are waging against the Mau Mau terror. You can still walk through the main thoroughfares after midnight alone. Nairobi remains comparatively safe, like a near frontier U.S. town of the 1880s, with Gary Cooper for U.S. marshal. But up-country is another part of the world...