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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sept. 6, within the three-minute timing tolerance that orders prescribed, the rockets zoomed off, beautifully vertical. Then, mission accomplished, Task Force 88 steamed smartly into Rio for a well-deserved five-day spell ashore. To Admiral Mustin and Captain Gralla, the Navy decided to award the Legion of Merit. And from Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke came a radio message for all hands: "A most hearty well-done" for a splendidly fulfilled pioneering task...
...Stratford on Avon, booming Negro Baritone Paul Robeson bared for waiting cameras a scrubbier jowl than usual. Reason: he was nurturing his own beard, since "last time I played Othello I used a false beard, but it kept slipping with perspiration." Fellow-traveling Traveler Robeson seemed fit after a spell with the flu in a Moscow hospital, for which he had predictable praise...
...Handel: Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, #12; Le Marteridest; Sebastien, Debussy; Mozaert: Quartet #23; Wagner: Parsifal Prelude and Good Friday Spell; Smetana: Quartet in E Minor; Shostakovitch: Symphony #1; Beethoven: Cello Sonato #2 for Cello
...that the U.S. may be facing "the supreme and ultimate test," and called for a 90-day "program of the utmost urgency." In Topeka, Kans. sometime G.O.P. Presidential Candidate Alf Landon warned: "We have seen so many crises in the past ten years that people find themselves under the spell of the old fable, where the boy cried 'Wolf! Wolf!' too often. But this...
...Spell out "thoroughly, carefully and precisely" the authority of the House Un-American Activities Committee, to avoid a duplication of the court opinion that reversed the contempt-of-Congress conviction of Labor Organizer John Watkins (TIME, July1...