Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appealing voice was as omnipresent as jukeboxes and disk jockeys. Two of her records were high on the bestseller lists, and a third sold 100,000 in its first week. In a little over a year, she had shot up from the ruck of the second-stringers to rank as No. 1 popular songstress...
...throwbacks to his days of military rank. By military protocol the senior officer is always last to enter a plane, boat or automobile and the first to leave...
...Stranger In Between (J. Arthur Rank; Universal-International), called Hunted in England, is a suspense-filled movie about a six-year-old orphan boy who falls in with a murderer fleeing from the police. The chase, leading across England and Scotland and through a series of such colorful settings as a pawnshop, a boarding house, an amusement gallery and a small fishing village, has been staged with cinematic vigor by Director Charles (The Lavender Hill Mob) Crichton...
...course of this investigation Adams made himself an American historian of absolutely first rank, a shrewd political observer, and an old sourpuss. Democracy, republished this week for the first time in a quarter-century, is one of the two novels Adams wrote in his lifelong expostulation with a nation that failed to give him his birthright. Though the U.S. has achieved success and power far beyond Adams' gloomy dreams,* Democracy, first published anonymously in 1879, is still just about the best satire ever written about the Government of the U.S. "The Prairie Giant." The business of the book...
...Salt Lake City, shot down his fifth enemy plane to become America's 18th jet ace of the war. In Tokyo, the Army announced that Brigadier General Haydon L. Boatner, who restored order to the rebellious prisoner-of-war camp on Koje Islands, had been promoted to the rank of major general. In Washington, the Marine Corps announced that Colonel Katherine A. Towle, 54, director of Women Marines, would retire next May to take over the job of dean of women at the University of California at Berkeley...