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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amazed by the hurdles thrown in the path of the judges at the National Spelling Bee [TIME, June 5]. The laugh should have been on those who meddled with the dictionary spellings, rather than on the contest judges . . . To spell supersede with a "c" and coruscate with a double "r" is to disregard the Latin roots from which they stem. Sedere and cedere have entirely different meanings in Latin...
...rise to some of the old Maginot Line thinking, of the superiority of the defense, and the delusion of security at cut rates. But the fact was that while the Army still had no atomic artillery under test, it did have some fine new weapons, including some that might spell the doom of the dreaded tank. Beneath all of last week's sales talk, though it was so conceitedly ebullient as to raise suspicions of overselling, the hum of scientific progress in weaponeering was real, and the best news in months...
Scripted by Virginia Kellogg and Bernard Schoenfeld, Caged has a tendency to spell out all emotions-especially sentiment-in large, block capital letters. But John Cromwell's direction has some unblinkingly realistic moments, and Caged ends on a stringent and unexpected note: paroled at last, Eleanor joins up with a vice ring and the hard-bitten warden gloomily reserves a cell for her early return...
Chicago's longtime (1933-46) Mayor Edward J. Kelly, 74, was hospitalized with what his physician said was "probably a mild to moderate spell of acute indigestion...
Happy Days. Under the spell of the good news, the market surged up: the Dow-Jones industrial average reached 222.57, a new peak, the highest since September 1930. (At the start of this week, with slow trading because of the Memorial Day holiday, the market was quiet...