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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just as casual, just as relaxed, was U.S. Diplomat Harold Stassen as he strode around London and Paris last week. His job was to negotiate some sort of agreement with the Russians on disarmament, so that A-bombs, H-bombs and intercontinental ballistic missiles in Florida might some day become less necessary. Europe's headlines followed him about in friendly fashion ("OUTLOOK-PEACEFUL"). Even his colleagues in Washington-long put out because of his passion for headlines- were now looking upon him with a less jaundiced eye. Harold Stassen was keeping a tight lip and competently going about negotiations...
Kier Nash's poem is exceptional only in that he is willing to make slight concessions to the grand old tradition of rhyme which has so long embellished English poetry. The other four poets are above this sort of thing...
...Third Baseman Frank Malzone walloped a couple of them out of leftfield, and the Sox went on to win no. No other American League pitcher has tossed up four home-run balls in a single inning since Philadelphia's George Caster gave the Red Sox the same sort of gift in 1940. Said Pitcher McLish: "I gave them "a variety of pitches. It was nothing, really...
...attempt to find out what it could of Galíndez and the subsequent disappearance of Gerald Murphy, the young soldier of fortune who flew him to his fate, involved CBS in a sort of thriller of its own. Of 200 witnesses questioned by CBS reporters, 50 refused to talk. Many, asked for FBI protection, agreed to talk only anonymously. Witnesses were interviewed in darkened Manhattan offices in the middle of the night, some bringing lawyers with them. The wife of one witness told CBS that she got an anonymous call saying: "We know your husband's talking...
...Face in the Crowd (Newtown; Warner) is the sort of cure that almost makes the disease desirable, even when the disease is as painful as the commercial phoniness that currently afflicts some parts of U.S. culture. The doctor in this case is Elia Kazan, a well-known specialist in social disorders who made On the Waterfront and Baby Doll and has directed three of Tennessee Williams' plays. Unhappily Kazan does not seem to know the first thing about a satiric operation. As Lady Mary Wortley Montagu explained the technique: "Satire should, like a polished razor keen/ Wound with...