Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basic stuff of the news is vivid, accurate reporting of day-by-day events. Sometimes this is the best that can be done, and readers must make their own interrelationships between separate events. But at other times it becomes possible to find, in seemingly unrelated happenings, a context that reflects an entire nation's mood. This week events in five countries enabled TIME correspondents and editors to take a searching look at several such situations. Items...
...headaches and fatigue, Walter Robertson sought to resign as long ago as January 1957. Secretary of State Dulles, an old friend, put his arm around Robertson's shoulder and said: "You just can't leave. I want you for policy matters, and you can leave the detail stuff to other people." Last July Robertson wrote out a formal letter of resignation to President Eisenhower, was turned down again. Reason: the Quemoy crisis was brewing, and Robertson's resignation might be read by Red China to mean a softening of the U.S. position. Last week, when ailing Walter...
...many cigarettes that it even produced a new brand: Hit Parade. Lannie Ross, Lawrence Tibbett, Frank Sinatra, Noel Coward, Fred Astaire, W. C. Fields all marched on the show with such regulars as Dorothy Collins and Snooky Lanson. Then came rock 'n' roll. The sort of stuff that Elvis sings began to lead the Parade, and American Tobacco apparently decided that kids who listen to that brand of song are hardly sophisticated enough to smoke. After long and faithful service to the pop-music fan, Your Hit Parade will peter out this month...
...life. Calm, careful, his every tone reassuring and reliable, he was just the man to bring a pilot home.* The true Lieut. Obenauf was surely willing to overlook the utterly silly last lines that the show put in his mouth: "Hey, I gotta pick up all that baby stuff from the Maxwells'." In real life, temporarily blinded though he was, he had jumped from the plane and run until someone tackled...
Bohn, a sophomore, led the Varsity to an overtime win against Hofstra, and has filled the gap left when Dub Mallonnee graduated. Unlike many collegiate attackmen, Bohn does not take a pass and immediately attempt to stuff the ball into the nets, but rather waits for the opposing goalie to make the first move...