Word: nov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wife in 1903. One lazy summer afternoon George was fishing on the Flint River near Vienna when he got word of the death of rabble-rousing Senator Tom Watson, bitter isolationist and onetime Populist Party candidate for President. George ran for the vacant place, and won. On Nov. 22, 1922 Walter George took his seat in the U.S. Senate, has been there ever since...
...shows. Godfrey's remedy: "a new show," possibly a bigger Talent Scouts, with the accent on eager new faces. "What's all the excitement about?" Godfrey grumped. "Both NBC and CBS once fired me the same way." Like their predecessor-in-exile. Singer Julius La Rosa (TIME, Nov. 2, 1953), Godfrey's ex-friends soon discovered that they had been hit with a golden ax. Flame-haired Songstress Marion Marlowe drew a fast $36,000 bid from Ed (Toast of the Town) Sullivan, also of CBS, who is always eager to snap up his rival...
...inter-American economic conference in Rio last year, Treasury Secretary George Humphrey promised the free nations of the world that the Eisenhower Administration would back the idea of a sort of international RFC to lend to private enterprise abroad (TIME. Nov. 22). Last week the U.S. made good its promise. World Bank President Eugene Black proposed that an International Finance Corp. be chartered with $100 million in capital, membership of the 56 nations "that belong to the World Bank. Principal customers will be businessmen in underdeveloped countries who need capital but object to the meddling that comes with government-guaranteed...
...quickly learns that many of the most intelligent natives spend a lot of time figuring out ways and means to escape from their Eden. The best fictional intro duction in years to their state of mind was Barbadian George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin (TiME, Nov. 9, 1953), a poetic memoir of island youth that plotted the colored man's course from careless innocence to gnawing discontent. In The Emigrants, a boatload of the discontented are on their way to England and a better break. For most of them, the break comes in the heart...
...yesterday announced regional broadcasting dates as Sept. 24, Oct. 8, Oct. 22, Nov. 5. and Nov. 12. The dates would permit the televising of the Cornell, Dartmouth, and Brown games...