Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Where Do Coloureds Come From?" asks Drum, Africa's leading magazine. Then it answers its own question: "coloureds" (who are all shades between black and white) come from some of South Africa's oldest, most respected white families. "It is fairly safe to say,'' added Drum (naming names), "that where any family has been in this country for more than 200 years, the chance of having no infusion of colour is remote...
...reported $4,000,000 plus an option for Street & Smith's owners on some 10% of Conde Nast's stock, Sam Newhouse assumed proprietorship of one of the oldest periodical publishers in the U.S. Established in 1855, Street & Smith prospered with an array of derring-do pulps from such prolific potboilers as Horatio Alger Jr., Ned Buntline, Josh Billings and Bill Nye, bought the early works of Booth Tarkington, Rupert Hughes, Fannie Hurst and many others. Street & Smith writers added many a resonant name to the ranks of folk heroes: Frank Merriwell, Nick Carter, Buffalo Bill. But with...
...taboos-stemming mostly from public moral attitude-center on indecency, concentrated coverage of crime, advocacy of birth control, and offense to the clergy. Dublin's biggest daily, the Irish Independent, built its circulation (171,728) on the boast that it could be read by the oldest mother superior in the smallest convent in Ireland without bringing a blush to her cheeks...
...Fernsehkoch (The Television Cook), tells the Hausfrauen how to make it, Swiss cream is sure to be a favorite dessert-and Clemens plans to pass the word soon. The balding, Menjou-mustached, ample-jowled Fernsehkoch last week was well into his seventh year on the air, with the oldest and most popular show on West German...
Planned to house dogs used in research, the one-story structure is the temporary command post from which Dr. Heller leads the major part of the U.S. fight against one of mankind's oldest and deadliest enemies-cancer. T19 is headquarters of the National Cancer Institute, and John R. Heller, 54, is the National Cancer Institute's director...