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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addressed as Miss, boys were to be referred to by their surnames. He himself, he announced, would answer only to Sir or Mr. Braithwaite. When one boy objected that he knew the girls too well for formality, Braithwaite scored a tactical victory. "Is there any young lady present whom you consider unworthy of your courtesies?" he asked. The girls glared at the rebel in outrage; he backed down...
...Depression saw him doing soft-shoe routines at small theaters to help buy the family groceries. World War II dumped him into the 84th Division, where the commanding general, Alexander Boiling, used to join Sergeant Ford in little skits. Chances are they also burdened Phil with his present style of humor. Sample...
...actors themselves, by "force if necessary; jail does not frighten me." With the fire of battle glinting once again in his green eyes, Siqueiros scoffed: "What kind of tragedy did you expect me to portray in a mural?°A Greek tragedy? Nonsense. For me, tragedy in present-day Mexico is the struggle of labor to become independent of government control. Besides, why are you so shocked? You knew what my politics were before you contracted...
...CARGO PLANES will soon be ordered by Pan American World Airways, which plans to begin service by early 1960s. Cargo jets could handle five-times-greater loads annually than present cargo aircraft, may cut cargo rates in half, says Pan Am President Juan Trippe...
...multitude of ever-turning cultural constellations, the rise and fall of Greco-Roman civilization is merely an episode lasting roughly from 1000 B.C. to 600 A.D. Toynbee traces the course of Hellenism's bright star lucidly, a little offhandedly, treating it largely as an object lesson for the present. Hellenism's central characteristic was the worship of man-exemplified by the ludicrously human crew of Olympian divinities and, later, by a more sophisticated secular humanism. This man worship, which has thrilled so many historians of Greece, chills Toynbee (an Anglican with a yen for syncretism...