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...shakeup of undergraduate film organizations appeared imminent last night as Dean Watson announced he would investigate the "undignified" conduct of the film groups in the College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Watson Will Investigate Movie Groups' Conduct | 5/5/1953 | See Source »

Conantm made the speech in New York at the invitation of John J. McCloy, former U.S. High Commissioner in Germany. He said the possible economic shakeup in Europe which might result from doing away with Germany's industrial power would be preferable to a third world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Opposed German Industry | 1/15/1953 | See Source »

Invited to Sit Down. When Taylor took over the Metropolitan in 1940, the great museum needed a shakeup. The golden age of the great benefactors, like J. P. Morgan and Jacob Rogers, had filled it with treasures, but many trifles had accumulated as well, and the public was more familiar with its exterior than its inside. "My job," says Taylor, "was to try, without causing any palace revolutions, to look to the future rather than the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Custodian of the Attic | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

Near Rome, Orson Welles, who had just bought a new Lancia Aurelia for $4,629, had a rattling good shakeup, but no serious injury, when the car crashed into a tree after a blowout. Condition of the car: "completely ruined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 8, 1952 | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

...party rules to be submitted to the Congress reveal no major shakeup, but nevertheless contain some interesting changes (see below). They suggest that Stalin is trying to tidy and tighten up the party, possibly to avoid, for a hand-picked successor, the murderous party strife which surrounded his own successsion to Lenin, thus perpetuate his power beyond death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Big Congress | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

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