Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats ever give up on their anti-Nixon smear campaign? The more I read about Nixon, the more I like...
...lonely Washington, Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman George Smathers, the Florida sparkler, called for reporters and tartly read off Butler for discussion that "takes people's minds off the virtues of the Democratic Party." In Louisiana, slow-burning Governor Earl Long, brother to the late Huey, proclaimed: "I've been hearing things like that 'integrate or get out' for a long time. You can tell Mr. Butler I said I don't intend to do either." Many a Southern politician echoed the sharp words of Mississippi Governor J. P. Coleman: "Instead of the South being thrown...
...languages, but it is a book without a country. Last week its author, Novelist-Poet Boris Pasternak, 68, received the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature† for his lyric poetry and for Doctor Zhivago (TIME, Sept. 15), the novel about Russia's terrible years that no Russian may read...
...rapt attention as one tender scene after another rolled past my eyes. Etchika Choreau, the new Brigitte Bardot according to the American-made posters which touch up her rather disfiguring freckles, played the leading role with all the tender delicacy it deserved; a man whose name I could not read played the part of a collossal boor with collossal boorishness; and there were many lovelies who displayed their carefully concealed charms (a seeming paradox) with the poise and savior seduire which can come only from several year's experience in French export films...
...know about Springhill is what I read in the papers. Even without the services of a municipal press agent, Springhill has scored with an impressive number of headlines in the last two years. Back in November, 1956, about 127 men with black faces were working in Mine No. 4 of the Dominion Steel and Coal Company when they heard and felt an explosion. The result did not become clear until two days later when all precincts were heard from and 39 men were counted dead. The newspapermen on hand for the occasion were figuring on an even higher total...