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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...murky night last week a Chinese Nationalist convoy steamed west from the Formosa Strait's Pescadores Islands toward the China coast. It consisted of a creaking, World War II-type LSM, two small gunboats and a minesweeper. For two nights in a row it had turned back in the face of Communist gunfire before accomplishing its mission: delivering supplies and 400 Chinese Nationalist reinforcements to the island of Quemoy. This time some 30 newsmen and photographers were also aboard, among them TIME Correspondent Jim Bell. Bell's report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Convoy for Quemoy | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...made up. Their Senate candidate was soft, savvy D.A. Hogan, a Roman Catholic (for ticket-balancing purposes) and a pro's pro. Indeed, De Sapio had been making approving sounds about Hogan ever since March. Among his main reasons: Hogan is far from being one of the A.D.A.-type liberals who, De Sapio thinks, have long been getting more political plums than their vote production is worth. And, as opposed to a liberal darling, a Hogan on the next New York delegation to a national convention would make it easier for De Sapio to deal with Southerners for whatever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Buffalo Brawl | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

...supplied to be sure that all patients had been in the hopeless state that he asserted, and that their improvement could not be due to chance or delayed-action benefits from previous treatment. Some thought that the same results could have followed an added course of cortisone-type hormones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Serum Against Cancer? | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

Spare the Rods. The two college-level films are being done entirely in animation. Observes Berkeley Chemist Joel Hildebrand, head of the American Chemical Society advisory committee that approves every frame of the films: "We've been very careful to avoid the Walt Disneyish type of film. There are no little fairies pushing things around." Neither are molecules represented-as they are in classroom models-by little balls held together by rods. Says Hildebrand: "We have taken out the rods and put in dotted lines to represent axes. That way nobody will mistake them for anything physical." Middleman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Films that Teach | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...becomes a truly tender pseudo parent; Lolita, the perverted child, becomes a true innocent. In the end-to Humbert's great agony-she is pregnant and happy with a young, goonlike husband. She has escaped, but there is no escape for Humbert. He seeks out a rich, pansy-type writer who had casually seduced her earlier, and in a horrific scene of violence and farce, shoots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To the End of Night | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

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