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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Maximilian Adelbert Baer, 50, perpetually clowning prizefighter who won 66 out of 80 fights (51 knockouts) by haphazard training and a walloping right, delighted in knocking out Nazi Germany's prize sportsman Max Schmeling in 1933, won the world's heavyweight championship from Primo Camera in 1934...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 30, 1959 | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Whatever the inspiration that sent a flat-wheeled caboose clattering after Author Metalious' steam-powered first novel, Peyton Place, the sequel bears all the marks of a book whacked together on a long weekend. The original novel required readers interested only in literary privy-peeping to wear out their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Son of P.P. | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Jennifer, the flagellant with fluorescent molars, is a new character. But her leering mother-in-law, who crouches by a hot-air register listening to the merry whack of belt on flesh, is an old friend from the first novel. So is Heroine Allison Mac-Kenzie, the girl author who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Son of P.P. | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

But now, as President Eisenhower prepares to set out on his gala 13-nation trip, many months after The Ugly American appeared, the United States still has an ambassador in Paris who speaks German, no French, and an ambassador in Bonn who speaks French, no German. In addition, American embassies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Diplomatic Dilettantism | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Soviet ambassadors, as The Ugly American pointed out, are career officials, carefully and intensively trained in the language, history and sociology of the nations to which they are assigned. By contrast, the United States has traditionally used such irrelevant standards as the size of campaign contributions and long-time political...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Diplomatic Dilettantism | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

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