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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spell out, however, whether he would risk a new East-West crisis by also transferring to Premier Otto Grotewhohl's Red regime the supervision of traffic between West Berlin and West Germany...
...boarded Columbine III for a trip to Seattle for an address this week to a meeting of the 18-nation Colombo Plan organization, set up by the British Commonwealth in 1950 to foster economic development in Asia. On the way, he stopped off in Ohio for a spell of duckhunting as the guest of his good friend and former Treasury Secretary, Cleveland Millionaire George Magoffin Humphrey. Arriving at Toledo, which had gone overwhelmingly Democratic three days earlier, Ike found an airport crowd of 2,500 waiting in 42° chill to show him that no matter how Toledans voted, they...
...last week the world was discovering once more that it takes only a brief spell of quiet to revive the ancient animosities and divisions that have made Arab unity largely fiction ever since the Prophet's heirs fell out more than 1,300 years ago. Egypt was embroiled with its neighbors-the Sudan, Libya, Tunisia-as well as with others who, fearing the power of Nasser's propaganda, dared not defy him publicly. In Iraq, whose revolutionary regime seized power in the name of Arab unity, the ruling officers quarreled, and the uprising, far from ending the historic...
...pages of the movie trade papers, dressed in nothing but a wet white silk shirt, Hollywood will get the word. "R.B."-the modest monogram on the shirt's breast pocket-tells it all. Russell Birdwell, Hollywood's busiest huckster, is on the job. After a brief dry spell trying to direct pictures (The Girl in the Kremlin, Flying Devils), and a few months of promoting such inanimate products as automatic laundries, "the Bird" is back at his appointed task: fabricating movie myths and getting their names into print...
...choosing a phony name and his best rube twang. "My brother passed away Sunday a week, and I wonder if you could do a job." Said the undertaker: "Good God, man, Sunday a week! Where is he?" Replied the comic: "Out on the porch against the lattice. That cold spell that set in kept him harder than a carp. But then that warm spell set in, and he commenced to get pretty fleshy...