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Word: sullivans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...benefit of visiting members of B'nai B'rith. The souvenir film package sold briskly for 80 Israeli pounds ($37 at tourist rates) until a visitor from England made a startling discovery last week: the background music for much of the film was Sir Arthur Sullivan's fine old hymn, Onward, Christian Soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Join Our Happy Throng | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...Winchell stood second to no columnist for journalistic terseness, ferocity and cheek. A chronic vendettist, he repeatedly bared his teeth and his quill in Winchell feuds: against Singer Josephine Baker ("pro-Fascist, a troublemaker"). the Stork Club's Sherman Billingsley (they quarreled over a pack of cigarettes), Ed Sullivan (''style pirate"), the New York Post ("pinko-stinko sheet"), the "fourth estate" ("All those columnists rapping me-where do you think they get their material? They go through my wastebasket"), and everybody ("Look. I want to get back at a lot of people. If I drop dead before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Aging Lion | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...receive the other half of Janet Dulles' estate, also gets $10,000 outright, plus forgiveness of a mortgage held by her father. Dulles' three sisters are each to get $10,000; William C. Pierce and Henry N. Ess III, his law partners in the Manhattan firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, will get $25,000 each. To his second son, Avery Dulles, went only $5,000, "not because of any lack of affection for him, but because of special circumstances." The circumstances: as a member of the Jesuit order, the Rev. Avery Dulles is bound by a vow of poverty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: I, John Foster Dulles | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

...lies. Day after the incident, an official Nairobi communique said the prisoners had died "after drinking water from a water cart." When Coroner W. H. Goudie began his own inquiry, he got little assistance from witnesses who testified, including, in his opinion, Hola's white Camp Commandant Michael Sullivan, whose veracity he frankly doubted. The coroner's verdict was itself curiously negative: "It is impossible to determine beyond reasonable doubt which injuries on the deceased were caused by justifiable and which by unjustifiable blows," or "which particular person struck the blows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: The Hola Scandal | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

Mask of Youth. Dulles went back to Sullivan & Cromwell, began a brilliant advance through major international assignments: he was counsel for a group of U.S. bondholders in the collapse of the Kreuger & Toll Swedish match trust, handled legal work on the $125 million J. P. Morgan & Co. loan to defeated Germany to help pay reparations. At 38 he became Sullivan & Cromwell's directing partner. It was then, according to one friend, that "young Foster adopted that dour expression, partly out of respect for the old fossils of 50 or 60 with whom he had to deal and partly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Freedom's Missionary | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

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