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FLOYD L. PARKS Lieutenant General, U.S.A. (Ret.) Executive Director National Rifle Assoc. of America Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 10, 1957 | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

...occupied by an off-screen voice which bears the same relation to the film as an M.C. to a series of blackouts. At least half the movie is made up of wacky little vaudeville routines, in which a stock Englishman and a stock Frenchman alternate the pratfalls. Major (ret.) William Marmaduke Thompson, C.S.I., D.S.O., O.B.E. (played by Jack Buchanan, the British George M. Cohan), is a cuff-shooting old harrumph who has left his best years East of Suez. Monsieur Taupin (played by Noel-Noel, a comedian who looks like a French edition of the late Robert Benchley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 27, 1957 | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

JAMES A. VAN FLEET General, U.S. Army (ret.) Auburndale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 8, 1957 | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

This is meant to counter the words of Colonel Charles C. Loughlin (ret.), who wrote [March 4], "The average Negro is treated like a second-class citizen because he is a second-class citizen." Remember, Colonel, there was a time when the Negro was not a citizen at all. He was a slave; then a "free" man-but without funds, without education, without anything. How could he become a first-class citizen? Of course, nowadays the average Negro has his N.A.A.C.P., but this average Negro honestly believes that what is really needed is a National Association for the Advancement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 25, 1957 | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

Died. Lieut. General Hubert Reilly Harmon, 64, U.S.A.F. (ret.) career flyer who planned and set in motion the U.S.'s new Air Force Academy, served (1954-56) as its first superintendent; of lung cancer; near San Antonio. A classmate of Dwight Eisenhower at West Point, and a brother of Lieut. General Millard Fillmore Harmon, World War II commander of the Strategic Air Force in the Pacific who was lost at sea in 1945, "Doodle" Harmon got a taste of the schoolmaster's side of soldiering as commander (1941-42) of the Gulf Coast Air Force Training Center, later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 4, 1957 | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

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