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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Club. With a population of 45,398 registered A.K.C., the beagle nosed the friendly, flop-eared cocker spaniel (pop. 43,561) into second place, after a record 17 years as the national favorite. The other ranking breeds, in order: boxers, dachshunds, collies, Chihuahuas, German shepherds, Boston terriers, Pekingese, and standard poodles...
Browning's knack was discovered by accident. He was practicing flips and somersaults under the admiring eye of Illinois Gymnastics Coach Charley Pond recently when both coach and pupil were struck with the same idea: Browning was clearing prodigious heights. They set up a standard high-jump crossbar, and Browning cleared 6 ft. 6 in., a good height for any high jumper. A bit later, he tumbled himself over the 7-ft. mark. His technique: a running, springing aerial twist into a backward handspring, which supplies momentum for a final backward double somersault up & over the bar. Some sportswriters...
Truth v. Objectivity. Actually, the Times was grappling with a problem that has stymied many another newspaper: getting the truth across to its readers while still conforming to long-established standards of journalistic "objectivity." Under those standards, an observation by Senator McCarthy is reported in the same "objective" manner as a quote from President Eisenhower. The fact is that U.S. daily journalism has not yet achieved the standard recently described in a speech by Turner Catledge, the Times's own managing editor: "A new responsibility has been added to that of collecting and presenting the facts. I refer...
...model for the 1954 line. The Cadillac has a new sweep, with a wrap-around windshield, larger tail fins, and jutting, jetlike exhaust pipes. There is a new suspension system, a more powerful engine (up to 230 h.p. from 210), cowl-type air vents instead of standard air intakes (which often sucked in the exhaust from cars ahead). As on most G.M. cars, prices are little changed, except for Cadillac's Eldorado convertible, cut $2,000, to $5,700 f.o.b. Detroit...
...company. Said he: "I tried to give advice and counsel, but Henry and I still didn't agree, so I decided to get off the board." Frazer will hold his job as chairman of Graham-Paige Corp., an investment company, and will be president and chairman of Standard Uranium Corp., a new company in which he will be in business with Charles Steen. the strike-it-lucky uranium prospector (TIME...