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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...currently on trial in New York for "conspiring to obstruct justice" by concealing the purpose of their 1957 "underworld convention" at Apalachin. By the normal standards of American morality, the majority of them are undesirable creatures, suspected, and possibly guilty, of assorted crimes from murder on down the scale of turpitude to petty larceny...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Guilt by Congregation | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...parading, the show never turns brassy. Its tunes are offhand but full of lilt; and those who fill its period roles are mostly actors rather than musicomedy performers. That is why, at their best, they perform so engagingly. Take Me Along itself has less the effect of a full-scale musical than of a show much enlivened with music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical on Broadway, Nov. 2, 1959 | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...Kelvin: the absolute temperature scale, which starts at absolute zero, 273° below zero on the centigrade scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hot Universe | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...tall Ziggurat at Khorsabad back in 706 B.C. What Wright did was avail himself of reinforced-concrete shell techniques to stand the structure on its narrower end, cantilever the floors inward, and top off the structure with glass, a material no ancient architect had to use on such a scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Last Monument | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Potential large-scale donors will be given the added inducement of perpetuating their names at the College by establishing specific scholarships or professorships through the Program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drive Needs $12.5 Million To Hit Quota | 10/28/1959 | See Source »

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