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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ANNE FRANK was a little girl who lived in Nazi-occupied Netherlands and wore a yellow six-pointed star prominently displayed upon her dress. The star was to warn all passersby that she was a Jew. Thousands of Americans who have read Anne's diary and seen the Broadway play, The Diary of Anne Frank, have wondered what happened between the time the Nazis crashed through the thin partition that concealed her attic hiding place and her death at Belsen. For the answer, see FOREIGN NEWS...
...France unleashed this savage attack on Tunisian civilians? By French report, several reconnaissance aircraft had been fired upon recently by machine guns emplaced in the village outskirts, and so, in the chilly words of France's Defense Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas: "Our aviators did no more than exercise the right of legitimate defense against antiaircraft elements operating from Tunisia with an impunity that was obviously unacceptable." A government spokesman added that he hoped "the Tunisian government would not seek to exaggerate the significance of the incident." Newsmen, stumbling through the rubble and counting the bodies laid out in long...
...years ago all The Netherlands was thrown into an uproar by the disclosure (TIME, June 25, 1956 et seq.) that Queen Juliana had called upon a lady faith healer to restore the sight of her fourth daughter, Princess Maria Christina (nicknamed Marijke). There was talk of the faith healer's insidious influence over the Queen; there were even reports that Juliana and her consort. Prince Bernhard, were so divided on the princess' care that they were considering divorce. But the Queen banished the healer, the furor subsided, and, acting on the advice of physicians, the royal couple decided...
...Fairchild publications have felt at home in gingham ever since Edmund W. Fairchild bought a piece of a Chicago clothing trade paper in 1890. "Our Salvation Depends Upon Our Printing the News," is the admonishing slogan that hangs from the ceilings of Fairchild's twelve-story home office building just off lower Fifth Avenue. Over the years Edmund and his brother Louis founded five flourishing trade publications: Women's Wear Daily, Daily News Record (men's clothing industry; circ. 21,687), Men's Wear (a semimonthly for retailers; circ. 21,091), Home Furnishings Daily (circ...
...obsolete our highways and endangering life and limb, and are enormously wasteful of raw materials" that should be saved for national security. "Unless American manufacturers meet the public demand for smaller, cheaper cars, European imports will take over a steadily increasing share of the domestic market, with serious effects upon employment in American automobile plants...