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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read in your July 8 issue what is in store for us in the 1958 automobile. The powers that be in Detroit are really planning some beauties for next year. American cars are already too big, too powerful, too expensive to buy and operate. Why make them more...
Next day, Homer Capehart, still smarting under Kerr's angry reply to "the midget" from Indiana, discovered that the Oklahoman had prudently revised the Congressional Record transcript to read that Ike had no "fiscal brains." That, said Capehart, shows exactly what "kind of gentleman" Bob Kerr is. Then Capehart did a doubletake on another Kerr line in the Congressional Record from the previous day's debate. Kerr: "I do not say that the President has no brains at all. I reserve that broad and sweeping accusation for some of my cherished colleagues in this body...
...following Sunday every Anglican clergyman in South Africa read from his pulpit a letter from his controlling bishop urging him to defy church apartheid, and proposing to establish a fund to support people prosecuted under the act. "If Verwoerd were so foolhardy now as to try to implement his church clause," said the conservative Johannesburg Star, "he would make an eternal martyr of the first person arrested, set the Anglican church in revolt, and probably spark off a series of events that would convulse the entire country." But that was not all. The Presbyterian Church declared church segrega tion "morally...
...herself was virtually invented, the first topflight star ever made strictly to order, for delivery when needed. When Cohn's underlings found her, she was a small-time model, somewhat overweight and so utterly lacking in acting experience that, as one director put it, "she had never even read the funnies out loud." Today Kim Novak not only holds full sway where Hayworth once ruled supreme, but she has set a record for going far and fast. After only six pictures, she is the nation's No. 1 box-office star, an honor bestowed with calculated deliberation...
...those who can take that grisly moment in stride, Fires on the Plain will not seem unbearable; it is a painful book to read, but rewardingly so. Unlike most of the Japanese novels that have reached the U.S. during the past few years, this one has neither the perfumed style nor the Oriental passivity and obliqueness that have made the others too exotic for Western tastes. Its hero is an infantry soldier at the end of whatever rope the author may choose to pull. He is the universal G.I. in whatever uniform comes to hand. But since he is Japanese...