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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four Air Medals and six battle stars to the President for distribution among the soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division. In Columbia, S.C., Governor George Bell Timmerman Jr. resigned his commission in the U.S. Naval Reserve so that he could not be called into service. In Albany, Ga., persons unknown set fire to two buildings on the campus of the Albany State College (for Negroes), caused an estimated $300,000 in damages...
After four weeks of flexing its muscles at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, the Royal Ballet (formerly known as Sadler's Wells) moved out to begin a four-month coast-to-coast tour. Along with its new name, the company brought five ballets previously unknown to U.S. audiences-including some of the most gaudily packaged merchandise it had ever displayed...
...Russians but the FBI and agents of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. For reasons that spoke volumes about the vigilance of the FBI, the letter had never got to the Russians inside the embassy. No sooner had French tossed it into embassy grounds than it was retrieved-unknown to him-by an FBI agent who must have been keeping a close and effective watch on the Russians. The agent took one look, decided that "To Whom It May Concern" meant the U.S. Government...
...compact (175 lbs.). His saturnine good looks and taut doomsday voice project virile authority. Person to Person, which also displays his urbane charm and ready smile, attracts far more women than men viewers, according to Trendex surveys, and in deference to this finding Person to Person technicians (so far unknown to Murrow) are now under orders to adjust camera angles and lighting to compensate for the latest recession in his hairline and to make the most of his expressive hands...
...Eliot's sister-in-law." Afternoons, however, the Grolier Book Shop becomes a community haven and meeting place. Last year, a girl working on a novel used the back room of his shop. Standing on Gordon's bookshelves are the drawings and water-colors of whatever unknown artist he happens to be be-friending. Some of his customers have keys themselves and if he is absent they will open the store for him, leaving money collected on a convenient table. Almost any customer may be put in charge, briefly, when the owner decides to leave for an afternoon...