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...most jangling discord came from spade-bearded Mitch Miller, director of Columbia Records' popular division and sometime oboist, who usually seeks the disk jockeys' favor. Lectured Miller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Turning the Tables | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

...call of the golden spade yesterday summoned alumni from Boston and New York to begin the second big push of the Program for Harvard College. About 500 area chairmen and captains returned to Cambridge to speak, to watch, and to listen, as the drive for the "thinner cats" began...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Groundbreaking Sparks 'Program' | 3/8/1958 | See Source »

...from Turkey, and so there will always be a moderate climate." The Syrian attempts to recover their dignity were both funny and pathetic. The NATO maneuvers were forgotten. To save what face they could, the Syrians moved Fortification Week ceremonies ahead, and President Shukri el Kuwatly dutifully dug his spade into Syrian soil, crying defiance to the "invader" even as in the U.N. his Foreign Minister Salah el Bitar conceded that the much-advertised threat of Turkish attack was not worth debating, and dropped Syria's demand for investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: The Syrian Aftermath | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...ground was officially broken yesterday for the six billion electron volt Cambridge Electron Accelerator, with President Pusey and Chancellor Julius A. Stratton of M. I. T. wielding the double-handled spade together...

Author: By Paul H. Plotz, | Title: Pusey, MIT's Stratton Break Ground For New Six Billion Volt Accelerator | 11/5/1957 | See Source »

...considered the full-leshed story too gamy for a family newspaper. Regardless of the trial's outcome or of Confidential's eventual fate, daily press coverage of the case and the increase in newsstand sales seemed to indicate that millions of readers like to have a spade of dirt called a spade of dirt-as Dirt Spader Harrison has insisted all along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Putting the Papers to Bed | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

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