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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would never be a party to any turnover of Quemoy and Matsu to the Chinese Communists," a top State Department official told a TIME correspondent last week. "But short of that, there are steps that would be taken to remove the 'thorn in the side of peace,' as the President mentioned-removing the provocations." Possible basis for discussion : neutralization of Quemoy and Matsu (see FOREIGN NEWS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Terms for Negotiation | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

Congratulations on your June 16 cover picture. Strictly from a sailor's point of view, Jean Thorn has Teller and Khrushchev beat from every angle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 7, 1958 | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

...picture on this week's cover story is of Mrs. Douglas Thorn Jr., 23, a Manhattan model who symbolizes the American woman's search for beauty. Arkansas-born Jean Thom is the mother of a two-year-old boy, works about 25 hours a week at modeling for top cosmetic houses. She has a problem that most women who visit beauty salons would be delighted to share: she is petite (98 Ibs.). Says Jean Thorn: "I hate it. I take vitamin pills and everything to fatten up a bit." She spends about 20 minutes a day making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 16, 1958 | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

...critic-gossipist in Hearst's New York Journal-American and 250 other U.S. papers, pudgy Jack O'Brian, 43, writes a daily column that is lively, readable, and regularly a thorn in all sides of the TV industry. Last week, violating one of show business' most sacred taboos, NBC's Comedian Steve Allen took a deep breath and told Critic O'Brian off. He filled six columns of Manhattan's Greenwich Village weekly Village Voice in lambasting O'Brian as "the only TV critic in the nation who is rude, inaccurate, unchristian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Counterattack | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

...Jennie, "fresh and sparkling as a rosebud," her "lovely petals protected by a thorn." With a slight tightening of the lips (and Kissel's shotgun), she can down eight brace of prairie plover in seven shots (five doubles and two triples). Has a "neat, graceful competence" in scalping Indians. Fond of husbands, but is apt to have them shot out from under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gold Rush Huck Finn | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

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