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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corpus of sculpture was of exceptionally high quality, and provoked a good deal of favorable comment. I had the impression that a larger percentage of the items were in traditional style than in any previous year, though some of the best were stylistically "progressive...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb., | Title: Boston Arts Festival Praised As Greatest Success to Date | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

...Clark, still trying to live down his name as Harry Truman's most patent political appointee, tends (with some notable exceptions) to follow the lead of the Chief Justice, whether it be Fred.Vinson or Vinson's successor, Earl Warren. HarIan, a "lawyer's lawyer," has broader previous experience at the bar and the bench than any of his colleagues, but he is the court's newest member and his way has not been clearly charted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUPREME COURT: Ends a Busy Term, Draws a Heavy Fire | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

...written some years ago by Christian Pineau, now France's Foreign Minister, tells of a little boy who is carried on a salmon's back to an island inhabited only by birds and a man-eating serpent. The boy, undismayed at the sight of the bones of previous victims, succeeds in establishing good relations with the serpent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Christian & the Serpent | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

...help, Dr. Snyder deduced by noontime that the President had acute ileitis.. This diagnosis, one of more than a dozen possibilities suggested by the symptoms, could not have been confirmed in the White House bedroom without X rays if Snyder had not been familiar with Ike's previous attacks and his medical history. This goes back to a "voluntary" appendectomy in 1923-after a series of unexplained upsets-and severe dysentery in the 1930s. On either of these occasions the disease could have planted itself. It usually strikes between the ages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Emergency at Walter Reed | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

...world's record for the 100-yd. dash at 0:09.3 seconds, then established himself as the fastest human in history by streaking to a world's record in the 220-yd. dash. His time: 20 seconds flat. It was 0:10. 1 better than his own previous record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Jun. 18, 1956 | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

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