Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quickly became something of a postwar wonder. In nearly four years, its circulation shot up from about 300,000 to 1,300,000, and it gave an outward appearance of success. But while Quick grew, "Mike" Cowles was arriving at a disturbing conclusion: in spite of its spectacular rise, Quick was no success. Last week, to his stunned and unbelieving staff, Publisher Cowles announced that he was killing Quick June...
...York's Jamaica race track one day last week, more than 38,000 people turned out in a cold, windy drizzle to see a big grey run a mile and a sixteenth. The question before the grandstand: Is Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Native Dancer the same spectacular horse at three that he was at two, when he won nine races out of nine? Jamaica fans did not expect the full answer in one day, but, looking over the so-so field of horses running with the Dancer, they wagered that he would win his 1953 debut with ease...
...most popular bishop in Italy. A wartime antiFascist, he made a postwar reputation in such Communist strongholds as Ravenna and Bologna, where he took the sting out of the Reds' propaganda by putting his weight behind social reforms. Hard-working as any Communist, he put on a spectacular Catholic youth festival in Bologna's Margherita Gardens (called the "Red Gardens") last month, outfacing Bologna's Red mayor (TIME, March 30). Lercaro feels that religion, largely through social-action projects, must close the gap. often found in Italy, between the church and a hard-pressed, often desperate working...
...winner, at an average speed of 86.4 m.p.h.: dapper, greying Jim Kimberly (in red gloves and shoes), who had made an entrance into Austin that was spectacular even by Texas standards. Included in the Kimberly entourage: a trailer loaded down with two Ferraris, a machine-shop truck, a station-wagon car complete with bar, and two expert mechanics. The whole outfit was decked out in Kimberly's favorite fire-engine...
Switch from Stalin. Published in Soviet newspapers and beamed by Radio Moscow to the U.S. and Europe, the announcement of the doctors' release was a spectacular repudiation of the anti-Zionist campaign launched with Stalin's approval in the last months of his life. It was the Kremlin's first open admission that its secret police can err, the first time that the Soviet people had heard from their rulers' lips that torture has been used as a method of police interrogation. Whatever dire necessity, of intrigue or revenge, had moved the Malenkov government to risk...