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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrat Paul Douglas, whose home state of Illinois ranks No. 1 in corn production, urged a congressional joint resolution "designating the golden corn tassel as the floral emblem of the U.S." In support of his proposal-duly referred to James O. Eastland's Judiciary Committee-Douglas read a sort of poem written by the late Edna Dean Proctor...
...Indians, having seen this sort of pride-punctured squabbling before, turned with a sigh toward the quietude of their own homes...
...doing it threw some 390,000 overseas dependents, along with 23,500 U.S. civilian employees of the armed forces, into a sort of legal no man's land. It also proved, if anyone had doubted it previously, that Supreme Court decisions depend heavily on the personalities and philosophical underpinnings of the justices who make them...
...Helping Hand. Simone, a stocky dressmaker in her late '40s, was as ugly as Marie-Claire was pretty, but she was an obliging sort who was always glad to pitch in and stitch up a dress for Françoise, to cook a meal, or to give old mother Evenou a hand with the household chores. Besides, as the doctor himself told a friend, "she may not be beautiful, but she knows how to love." For some months things went along swimmingly. Then, as a man with too much often will. Dr. Evenou grew bored. "My first two wives...
...bonus for having clobbered NBC's Today in the ratings. TV's best drama factory, Playhouse 90, will replay only the shows it originally did on film, all of them poor. The one CBS experiment will be Monday night's Studio One Summer Theater, a sort of summer-stock version of the regular Studio One, returning live shows with new acting and directing talent. Low-key Comic Peter Lind Hayes will pinch-hit for Godfrey on Talent Scouts, and last summer's hot-pop Baritone Vic ("Da Moan") Damone returns with his caramel-whip tunes...