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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Probably 10,000 TIME readers have written you concerning the sentence: "The brouhaha with Stevens hurt McCarthy as well as the party . . ." What does "brouhaha" mean? The word appears in no dictionary I have consulted-and is unknown to researchers at local libraries...
...battle itself was the fiercest and the bloodiest of the seven-year-old IndoChina war (see below). Glaring headlines and the wrench of huge casualty figures jolted the French public. Parisians by the thousands paid visits to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, under the Arc de Triomphe, and tiny bunches of violets, bought for a few francs in honor of nameless fallen Frenchmen half a world away, were deposited alongside the big formal wreaths that are nearly always there...
...also a pet project of a thirtyish war widow on McIver's staff who sees eye to eye with him on therapeutic methods. Together with the "patients' governing committee," McIver and the widow concoct a plan for Stevie to design new draperies for the sanitarium living room. Unknown to McIver, both Karen and the sanitarium's old biddy of a business manager have ordered separate sets of draperies on their...
...first perfectly normal: entertainers entertain, spectators jostle each other, a rowdy is ejected and everyone cranes his neck to see what is going on. Everything is straightforward and familiar. Suddenly the camera focuses on a hand holding a gun, two shots ring out, and a sense of the mysterious unknown is introduced. It is successful because it is intangible, because it is no more than an impression of something alien and frightening suddenly introduced into a perfectly ordinary situation...
...Dumont Partisan Nan Kivell. By the time the show was three days old, 25 Dumonts had been sold for a total of ?12,000 ($33,600). Twelve more were reserved by buyers in what turned out to be one of the biggest stampedes for the works of an almost unknown artist London has ever seen. Among the customers: Actors Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir Ralph Richardson and Richard Attenborough, Collector Lord Ivor Churchill, and Ohio's Toledo Museum...