Word: paule
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MINOR crisis was brewing in the -» tiny British protectorate of Brunei as Paul Hurmuses, TIME'S Hong Kong staff correspondent, paid a visit there last week. The local Sultan, who rules that little nation of former wild men of Borneo, wanted his entire palace air-conditioned. His comely and strong-minded wife insisted that the bedrooms be left free of this 20th century improvement. "Don't worry," an aide whispered, "he'll win her over, but it will take time." For an account of some greater triumphs achieved by the Sultan of Brunei in bringing...
Founded by Missouri Apple Grower Paul C. Stark (father of the "victory garden" idea during World War II), the N.C.C.C.I, has a straightforward message: Washington should do its best to check inflation, but it is clearly up to the rest of the nation to help out with self-restraint. On that point Dwight Eisenhower fully agreed with Apple Grower Stark. Said Ike at his midweek press conference: "Government, no matter what its policies, cannot, of itself, make certain of the soundness of the dollar . . . There must be statesmanlike action, both by business and by labor...
...Idaho, beat down attempts to criticize the Supreme Court by resolution, but only after the association's president. New Hampshire's Attorney General Louis Wyman (whose anti-subversive activities had just been rebuked by the Supreme Court in the case of sometime University of New Hampshire Lecturer Paul Sweezy), had given the Supreme Court a scorching rarely heard north of Mason and Dixon. The Supreme Court, cried Wyman, had "set the U.S. back 25 years in its attempt to make certain that those loyal to a foreign power cannot create another Trojan horse here." The U.S. Constitution, said...
...appeal trial brought a deluge of protests and pleas for clemency from world liberals and Marxists, including British Philosopher Bertrand Russell, Scientist Julian Huxley, Peru's President Manuel Prado, Hungarian Writer Paul Igno-tus, French ex-Fellow Traveler Jean-Paul Sartre, as well as from such Communists as Artist Pablo Picasso and Poet Louis Aragon (who was later outraged to learn that the capitalist press knew of his appeal). Seemingly impressed, the Kadar regime said last week that, "pending re-examination of the case," it had "suspended" the death sentences of Intellectuals Obersovszky and Gali. But three days later...
...McLellan were: the "blues," that aped the human voice; the rococo-like ragtime; the tension-relaxation principle of "swing," wonderfully illustrated by a piece called "Nobody Will Room With Me"; the small "spasm" or "skifflle" bands of home-made instruments; the staccato phrasing and polish of Bix Beiderbecke; Paul Whiteman, who "tried to make a lady out of jazz and wound up with a eunuch"; the wider tone colors and neo-jungle rhythms of Duke Ellington; the two-beat music of Jimmy Lunsford; Benny Goodman and the importance of his Fletcher Henderson arrangements; the blues-based simplicity of Count Basie...