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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thank heaven the small cars are coming back again. In 1949 we finally got our first new car-a Plymouth club coupé. Now, ten years and three children later, we still have the same wonderful little car. We figure that if we hang on to the old '49er a while longer, it will be right back in style again. Hurray for the compact car with the nice price, power-nothing, and the good old stick shift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 26, 1959 | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Space Scientist Wernher von Braun [Sept. 21], always more adept at obtaining newspaper space than in penetrating outer space, is also weak in the history of his adopted country. "My country, right or wrong" is no "old English saying" but a slight misquote of a toast by Stephen Decatur.*The English view was best expressed by G. K. Chesterton: " 'My country, right or wrong' ... is like saying My mother, drunk or sober...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 26, 1959 | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...your statement that Judaism is traditionally opposed to proselytizing. Why don't you scrutinize the Old Testament? Ruth the Moabite-is a good starter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 26, 1959 | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...dollars at such a clip that the U.S., to protect its own economic strength, must press other nations to shoulder an increasing share of the burden of aid to underdeveloped countries. Around this basic point developed a definitive story of a momentous shift in the balance between the Old World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 26, 1959 | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...fine old institution is "Schneider's Band," a motley crew that plays at various girls colleges or wherever a beer keg is found. There actually was a Professor Schneider at Harvard, Band members will tell you, and Johann Wolfgang Schneider's Silver Cornet Band was "perpetrated in 1807." The present band is the descendant of that group...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: University Band Celebrates 40th Anniversary | 10/24/1959 | See Source »

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