Word: nov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since I have long used TIME as my window for viewing the activities of the world, I was extremely gratified to find you devoting whole handfuls of words to my book, A Twist of Lemon [Nov. 10]. While your reviewer seemed somehow callously immune to the opinion of my agent and my mother that it is the greatest book of the century, he certainly treated me with tact and sympathy...
...published a news item in your Nov. 3 issue which said I had admitted holding 3,000 tons of wheat in my private warehouse. I would like to state that I have made no such admission. I do not hold or ever have held 3,000 tons of wheat in my warehouse. My land produced 20 tons of wheat this year. Half was given to the tenants, and half was sold to the government...
...could hardly believe my eyes when I saw J. S. Martin's letter in your Nov. 10 issue. This is a free country, but you should have enough judgment not to publicize a senseless letter calling the President of the U.S. a "golf playing idiot...
...Geneva test-ban conference started, the U.S. detected and announced two "low yield" Russian explosions at a new test location deep in southern Russia-although the U.S. had suspended its own nuclear tests for a one-year trial period on condition that the Soviet Union do the same (TIME, Nov...
When English Teacher George N. Allen quit his job at Brooklyn's slum-sick John Marshall Junior High School and unmasked himself as a crusading New York World Telegram & Sun reporter (TIME, Nov. 24), he sweetened his exposé with the promise that the $490 he had earned teaching would be turned over to a teachers' retirement fund. But the New York City Board of Education refused to act like a grateful teacher. Last week, while Allen continued to churn out his lively eyewitnesser under such headlines as "HEY, TEACH . . ." is SIGNAL FOR BEDLAM and SLOW PUPILS CHEATED...