Word: nov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearly two years, beginning in 1951, a House Judiciary Subcommittee pried into suspicious tax and fraud cases that had brought scandal to the Justice Department during the Truman Administration. The most spectacular witness was a drawling, small-town lawyer named Theron Lamar Caudle (TIME, Nov. 26, 1951 et seq.). But more often than not the committee's trail led toward the man who had brought Caudle from Wadesboro, N.C. to Washington: onetime Attorney General Thomas Campbell Clark, since 1949 Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. When Justice Clark was asked to testify, he declined with dignity...
...NBCTV) is a literate, family-situation comedy starring Broadway's talented Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. Written by Radio Scriptwriter Ernest Kinoy, the new series looks like a transmutation of Jan de Har-tog's Broadway hit The Fourposter, in which the same couple appeared (TIME, Nov. 5, 19-51), but lacks much of the deftness of that comical production. One reason is that the first script has too much of the radio style about its dialogue, and not enough TV appeal. The few good visual touches that are used are ably exploited by Actor Cronyn. Example: visiting...
...quickly moved up, in 1941 became vice president for sales. Lewis takes over from Timothy V. Hartnett, 63, who was named the first full-time chairman of the Tobacco Industry Research Committee, a $500,000 foundation set up by the industry to find out how tobacco affects health (TIME, Nov...
...TIME, Nov. 16), along with...
Died. Charles Francis Adams (TIME, Nov. 4, 1946), 87, great-great-grandson of President John Adams, great-grandson of John Quincy, cousin of Henry, yachtsman and onetime Secretary of the Navy (1929-33); after long illness; in Boston. He became an ardent Hoover supporter, but as Navy Secretary bitterly opposed Hoover's reductions in naval appropriations. America's leading yachtsman, he skippered the Resolute to victory over the late Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock IV in the 1920 America's Cup races, at the age of 73 brought off an unparalleled sweep of U.S. yachting...