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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain has always esteemed such doughty dotties as the 19th century Roman Catholic naturalist, Charles Waterton, who devoted his life to exterminating black rats in England on the ground that they were foreigners smuggled into the country by Hanoverian Protestants. The 1951 Festival of Britain even set aside a section of one pavilion to commemorate oddballs. Britain's contemporary eccentrics manifest more energy than originality, but Britons in the past month have found cause for hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: On the Road | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...Aragon celebrate one of the oddest pop hits ever recorded-a French disk titled Heartbeat, featuring Composer Marie Philippe-Gérard and his "cardiac rhythms." One side is devoted to cha cha cha, the other to a Gallic rock 'n' roll. In each case, the rhythm section includes a thumping human heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: With a Song in My Heart | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Arthur D. Trottenberg '49, Manager of Operating Services, warned yesterday that the move still depends on whether or not the Corporation votes to include a section for administrative offices in the Health Center Building. He said no other location for the GSAS has been considered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GSAS Plans Move Into Health Center | 11/28/1959 | See Source »

...teach at the same time, Byse noted. Therefore, to help fulfill the dual responsibility of law schools, he suggested increased financial aid for legal research. If funds were used to enlarge faculties, each professor could focus his attention, both as a teacher and a scholar, on a particular section of the law, he explained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Byse Explains Fear of Criticizing Recent Supreme Court Decisions | 11/25/1959 | See Source »

...best section of the book consists of a dozen of the Boz sketches, where Dickens roves through the gin shops, the courts, the dawn-lit and night-curtained alleys of London with the gusto of a tourist and the unsentimental eye of a bobby covering his beat. But the rest of Charles Dickens' Best Stories is no match for the memory of Lionel Barrymore playing Scrooge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Artist as Sob Sister | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

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