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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Ralph S. Damon, 58, president of Trans World Airlines; of pneumonia, in Mineola, N.Y. Energetic, inquisitive Harvardman ('18) Damon learned to fly before he learned to drive a car, was an air cadet in World War I, put the famed P47 Thunderbolt into mass production in World War II. Air travelers are in debted to Damon for helping develop 1) the first all-sleeper transport plane, and 2) low-cost tourist travel on both domestic and international lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 16, 1956 | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

This was a fact brought home to her with the force of a thunderbolt one day early last week when she picked up a copy of the London Times, which up to then had maintained a stern silence on her romance. Wedlock with a divorced man, warned the Times, would require the Princess to enter into "a union which vast numbers of her sister's people, all sincerely anxious for her lifelong happiness, cannot in all conscience regard as a marriage." The peoples of her sister's Commonwealth, it went on, "would see her step down from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Choice | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

...page letter delivered by Russian Ambassador Lavrentiev in person. Tito received the letter, laid it on his desk and read it standing up. It began: "We consider your answer untruthful and therefore wholly unsatisfactory." Said Tito, recalling the moment recently: "Scanning the opening line, I felt as if a thunderbolt had struck me. Lavrentiev peered at me coolly to see what my reaction would be. I never winced; I contained myself as much as I possibly could. Lavrentiev could no longer endure it, and before I had scanned the whole letter, he asked, 'When shall we have an answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Come Back, Little Tito | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

...investigators were considering the request when another event took the decision out of their hands. The rebels sent out a P47 Thunderbolt that impudently buzzed an O.A.S. observer plane and went on to bomb and strafe the town of Liberia. At the same time, invaders' infantry and Figueres' volunteers met in a clash just north of Liberia. A few hours later, at 2 o'clock one morning this week, the council met again in emergency session and grimly voted to ask the U.S. to sell Costa Rica four P-51 Mustang fighters. That afternoon the planes were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COSTA RICA: Invasion | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

...Baling Studios, a J. Arthur Rank affiliate just outside London, a comedy factory that puts out more and better humor than any place since Hollywood in the silent days. In such marvelously handwrought hilarities as Tight Little Island, Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Lavender Hill Mob, and The Titfield Thunderbolt, the Baling people have created, for the first time, an inimitably English screen style: "the little comedy." (Ealing's three Alec Guinness comedies alone have probably grossed about $2,250,000 in U.S. theaters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 13, 1954 | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

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