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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...operations, caused our army serious damage . . . When there developed an exceptionally serious situation for our army in 1942 in the Kharkov region ... I telephoned Vasilevsky [Chief of Staff] and begged him: 'Alexander Mikhailovich, take a map and show Comrade Stalin the situation which has developed . . .' We should note that Stalin planned operations on a globe. Yes, comrades, he used to take the globe and trace the front on it ... [But] Stalin didn't want to hear any more arguments on the matter. I telephoned to Stalin at his villa . . . but Stalin did not consider it convenient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KHRUSHCHEV'S DENUNCIATION OF STALIN: The Historic Secret Speech | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

Ever since World War II, U.S. intellectuals have, as never before, been debating these questions. But in the course of the debate, one note has been struck time and time again, and no one has sounded it more clearly than Historian Jacques Barzun of Columbia University. If there is a traditional distrust of ideas in the U.S., says Barzun, the nation's men of ideas have still "won recognition in tangible ways beyond any previous group of their peers." And more important, many have come at last to realize that they are true and proud participants in the American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Parnassus, Coast to Coast | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

...sophisticated songs, sweet, hot and tough, sung with the utmost simplicity by the queen of popular singers. The Fitzgerald method, in her own words, is to "just sing," and at least half of her poignance comes from the fact that she sings right in the heart of the note (instrumentalists like to say they tune up to her notes). Strangely enough, she can breathe right in the middle of a phrase and get away with it-a nice way of suggesting that she is not so sophisticated as the songs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Records | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

...facts, simply present all the news." Thus, in columns rife with rape, the paper never descends to such pseudo-glamorous tabloid cliches as "voluptuous" or "comely" to describe a victim; it simply tells the reader in cold detail what happened up to the stage where, as its reports invariably note, offense took place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: End of an Era? | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

...Damned. In Riverside, Calif., the public library displayed some rare bookmarks left by readers: a carpenter's file, a 6-in. rubber dagger, a cut-out of Marilyn Monroe, a lottery ticket on a 1936 Ford, a deflated balloon, a ticket to the fireman's ball, a note reading, "Roises are red/ Vilets are blue/ And I HATE YOU, Jean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 4, 1956 | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

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