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...Jimmy McPartland has brought his cornet out of the west (by way of Europe and Canada) and overnight the Rathskeller band is as Chicagoan as the Outer Drive...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: JAZZ | 11/14/1950 | See Source »

...battle was for the middle, though the oratory sounded as if it were for the extremes. The Republicans most in trouble, including some Midwesterners who normally might be expected to coast in, were generally those on the outer limits of the right. On the left, Senators Claude Pepper, Frank Graham and Glen Taylor had already gone down to defeat, and in California, Helen Gahagan Douglas was having a hard time living down her past votes with the same crowd. Many Democrats had ducked, or discarded, such controversial notions as the Brannan Plan or socialized medicine in their scramble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Inscrutable Independent | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

Meeting Up. The cavalrymen, firing from their vehicles, drove swiftly through Pyongyang's outer defenses, left the enemy on their flanks to be mopped up by the men who followed them. At 11 a.m. the 5th's 2nd Battalion blasted its way into the southern edge of Pyongyang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: Damn Good Job | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

...Outer Mongolia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME News Quiz | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

According to Drs. Libby and Grosse, the tritium now on earth was formed recently by cosmic rays from outer space hitting and smashing nitrogen atoms in the upper atmosphere. During the confusion, some protons knocked out of the nitrogen make off with two neutrons in attendance. The threesomes pick up electrons and become tritium atoms. Eventually they join with oxygen, form water molecules and fall to earth in the rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tritium All Around | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

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