Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Laguerre lunched with a famous British ex-Communist, then he was off to an interview with a Foreign Office official. Back at the office, incoming stories and suggestions from TIME stringers in Ireland, Scandinavia and the main British cities were edited and evaluated for the overnight story suggestion list to the editors in New York...
...Dependents. With but 6% of the population, the U.S. produces and consumes almost 50% of the world's annual output of goods and services. Yet if Americans tried to make do without foreign trade, their standard of living would dwindle overnight. There would be no coffee, tea or bananas in the U.S. shops; sugar and pineapples would be priced skyhigh. Telephones (which need 48 different materials from 18 foreign countries), automobiles (300 items from 56 foreign countries) and shoe polish (eight items from abroad) would be scarce and more expensive. Said Harold Stassen last year: "The U.S. depends...
...right-wing Progressive Party from Yoshida, leaving Yoshida with only 183 votes in the Lower House of the Diet. The two dissident forces combined to form a big, new, conservative "Japan Democratic Party," with 124 seats and heavy business support. Many Socialists would probably vote with the Democrats. Almost overnight Yoshida was in trouble...
Died. Robert Edmond Jones, 66, dean of U.S. stage designers; in Milton, N.H. A student of Max Reinhardt, Jones became famous overnight in 1915 with his settings (in "colors as loud as gongs") for The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife. In more than 200 subsequent productions (among the most famous: The Green Pastures, Redemption, most of the plays of Eugene O'Neill), he projected the thoughts of playwrights in vivid, interpretative settings which were "not pictures, but images," vigorously rejected the traditional idea of stage design as simple decoration. "A setting," he wrote, "is a presence, a mood...
Lamont Library will suspend the overnight borrowing privileges of students who have been repeatedly fined for not returning the library's reserve books on time, Philip J. McNiff, Assistant College Librarian, announced last night...