Word: notes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wire Service. In St. Paul, after complaining to his newsboy of late deliveries, early-rising Dewey Friedman got a note in return: "Enclosed please find my telephone number. Will you please call me every morning at 5 a.m. so I won't be late with your papers...
Kozlov bounded off the plane in Sacramento, was given a cream-colored Stetson that was too big for him, posed with two beauty queens, one of whom was a Negro ("Note her California tan," said Brown). Seeing a map illustrating California's big plans for a statewide water system (TIME, June 29), Kozlov observed: "Socialism is helping capitalism." Replied "Pat" Brown quickly: "We don't call it that." Later, Roman Catholic...
Blackball. Nixon's view of the rift, according to Mazo: "We are not unfriendly. We are two individuals going our own ways." Last week the Chicago Tribune's Walter Trohan added another note. According to the Tribune, Chief Justice Warren in 1957 blackballed an invitation to Vice President Nixon from the American Bar Association to attend the celebrated London meeting at which more than 3,000 U.S. and British lawyers examined the basis of the common law (TIME, Aug. 5, 1957). Said Warren, according to the Tribune, to David Maxwell, then president of the A.B.A...
...serious attacks of the disease in those years, 500 to 1,000 out of every 100,000 got mild infections without knowing it and built up an immunity. Since 1955, the heaviest incidence of polio has been among children still unborn at the time of the big epidemics. Researchers note that in the first post-Salk vaccine year (1956), the worst polio was among one-year-olds, and in the second, among one-and two-year-olds. Now it is worst among the one-to three-year-olds. Bowing to the statistics, the Public Health Service has recommended that doctors...
...program note, The Great Big Doorstep, by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, is referred to as "a wholesome antidote to the heavy exposure of Deep South Depravity to which readers and playgoers were already being subjected." The fallacy in this statement is that, while depravity can at least cause a warm tingling sensation up and down your groin, the only emotion induced by prolonged exposure to innocuousness is sheer boredom...