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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Holy Land when Hubert was 16. The boy managed to finish college, got a job as a mining engineer, finally bought a promising silver mine in Rawhide, Nev. When the vein ran out, he looked around for a job, after due consideration signed on as manager of a rundown cemetery near Los Angeles. One day in 1917, as Eaton surveyed his "depressing patches of devil grass, straggling untidy pepper trees [and] grim granite headstones," he was seized with a thrilling vision of "a great park, devoid of [the] customary signs of earthly death," where the dead might, in the biographer...
John Gunther's High Road (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Russia's Next Rulers gives a rundown on the Soviet's future elite, the students at Moscow's State University...
Searching for passengers on the June 10 New York-to-Liverpool voyage, the Daily Express placed three transatlantic calls to Mrs. Mona Kucker, a Norwalk, Conn, dog breeder who had sat at the captain's table. Mrs. Kucker gave the first real rundown on the charges. "I have a letter from Captain Armstrong," said she, "saying that he has been accused of chasing young girls around the ship and sitting in the main lounge with Mrs. Silverstone on his knee, zipping and unzipping her dress." Added Mrs. Kucker: "Nothing like that even loosely transpired...
...information to get 100% on this quiz can be found in this issue of TIME; nevertheless, we supply an easy rundown of answers on Page 74. But that won't do you any good, kids, if that's what you are thinking. None of these specific questions will be in the test that we will send out Sept...
...achievement does not seem impressive mainly because it is far from enough to keep the Garden going. "It's all rundown now," mourned one of the maids last week, "but it's still got a lot of what you'd call dignity. The same people keep coming back. Oh, they go away complaining, but they come back because there's nowhere else like this. Now where will they...