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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newsletter, Williams Intelligence Summary. In mid-1951, he carefully trimmed a 1945 news photo of four Allied generals toasting the Allied victory in Europe, at which time Russia's Marshal Georgy K. Zhukov presented Eisenhower and Britain's Field Marshal Montgomery with Russian victory medals. The Williams version left Ike and Zhukov alone in what was intended to look like a suspiciously friendly pose (see cut). Williams printed and is still circulating the picture with the caption: "Zhukov, Communist general, decorates Drinking Partner Eisenhower at Frankfurt, Germany...
...weeks, Ira Cain, 42-year-old military editor of Amon Carter's Fort Worth Star-Telegram, had been working to get a beat. He hoped to report the maiden flight at Fort Worth of Consolidated Vultee's big, new YB-60, the jet version of the B-36 bomber...
...most significant changes have to do with shifts of public attitudes. Plays written in the depths of the 1930s depression sometimes have quite an odd sound to ears tuned to 1952's prosperity. In last week's TV version of Sidney Howard's They Knew What They Wanted, there was no longer any mention of the fact that one of the leading characters was a confirmed Wobbly. Says Mab Anderson: "People today don't even know what Wobblies...
...African Queen. A prissy old maid (Katharine Hepburn) and a gin-swilling skipper (Humphrey Bogart) triumph over jungle heat, hardship and the hangman's noose in John Huston's Technicolored version of C. S. Forester's adventure yarn (TIME...
Anything Can Happen. Folksy, affectionate film version of George and Helen Papashvily's 1944 bestseller about an immigrant from Russian Georgia (Jose Ferrer) who discovers America (TIME, April...