Word: spent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chief, was treading the trails and villages of Alaska again last week when the word came through that the U.S. Senate had voted statehood for the territory. The news was as cheering for Schulman as it was for most Alaskans, for both he and Seattle Correspondent Russ Sackett had spent weeks in the territory when the bill was in the House, reporting the cover story on Governor Mike Stepovich (TIME, June 9), and both had acquired a glow of personal discovery for the "land of beauty and swat." Schulman blushed a modest red when enthusiastic Alaskans told him that TIME...
...Richard Mack, and Government attorney in the successful 1954 ouster action against Atomic Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Also helping write the statement was Sol Gelb, onetime assistant to New York District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey, and latter-day attorney for Teamsters Boss Jimmy Hoffa. Gelb, an expert at crossexamination, spent hours shooting at Goldfine the sort of questions the House subcommittee might...
...stay on in Cambridge for the summer, rather than motor to Mexico with his mother, Vag did not realize the import of his choice. Now he was in the middle of a world he could not come to terms with--a world far distant from the sedate evenings spent with a cribbage board that sparked his proper life...
Died. Alexander Malcolm Smith, 99, Scots-born explorer and prospector (for oil and gold), who became a legendary figure in the Canadian northwest and Alaska, once blazed an 1,800-mile trail from Alberta to Dawson in the Yukon Territory, later spent some time in a Soviet jail for prospecting on the fringes of Siberia; in San Jose, Calif...
...Journalist George Paloczi-Horvath spent five years in a Communist prison; his teeth were knocked out, a rib broken and his face scarred with lighted cigarettes. He and his cellmates organized a miniature university, lecturing to each other on history, literature, geography, etc. One man knew two dozen operas by heart, sang all parts and reproduced the orchestral interludes...