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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Middle-sized, plumpish John von Neumann was a man people liked on sight. Those who barely knew him called him Johnny; he might have been a popular restaurateur or candy-shop proprietor. He was, instead, the greatest mathematician of his time. His ideas and personality had a profound effect on today's scientific...
Pete Harpel and John DuMouling figure to pick up valuable points in the weight, although Dick Knorr of Princeton throws the thing out of sight. John deKiewiet and Jack Murphy should score in the high jump...
...Protestantism in New York is in an extreme minority.* Ministers have been discouraged and frustrated ... In talking with many of them we found almost a sense of desperation. Ministers who could not agree with us theologically . . . are willing to cooperate simply because there seems to be nothing else in sight for them to reach the conscience of this city. Recently a New York minister said that he felt this crusade could possibly be God's last call to New York...
...Museum of Modern Art, who took advantage of last spring's cultural thaw to go to Leningrad for the Hermitage's first big display of French painting. Beyond the show, Barr was permitted to see an astonishing cache of modern art stored away out of sight...
COSTLIER COLOR TV is in sight. Radio Corp. of America has boosted prices for three of its ten color sets by $45 to $50, will sell them in range from $645 to $745 v. previous $595 to $695. But lowest-priced RCA color TV will stay at $495 at least until summer, by which time company may hike all color prices to offset higher costs for labor, materials...