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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Band has been forced to curtail considerably its planned Southern tour because of financial reasons. The 55-man group will play only at the Harvard Club of New Jersey, in Newark, Monday night, March 30, and at the Washington, D.C., Club the following night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Finances Force Band To Alter Tour Plans | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...innocuous poet and his cowardly roomie stash some unwanted bombs in the bosom of an ample simpleton; she is torn off screaming by the dreaded Black-and-Tans, executed, and leaves the two with the empty feeling that they've been naughty, somehow, much in the manner young George Washington must have felt...

Author: By Gavin Scott, | Title: Shadow of a Gunman | 2/7/1959 | See Source »

...WASHINGTON, Feb. 4--The Senate turned down yesterday a Republican substitute aimed at cutting a $2,925,000,000 Democratic housing bill back to levels favored by President Eisenhower...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Russians Release Army Trucks After Hindering Road to Berlin; Senate Kills Republican Measure | 2/5/1959 | See Source »

...WASHINGTON, Feb. 4--A bill to make Hawaii the 50th state moved one step forward yesterday by getting a 5-4 vote of approval by the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Russians Release Army Trucks After Hindering Road to Berlin; Senate Kills Republican Measure | 2/5/1959 | See Source »

Another thing I like about TIME is the way it makes everything in Washington so clear, so that a fellow like me can know for sure who the good guys and the bad guys are. Like for example your story about the missiles where you show that "Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, backed by the best intelligence there is" has it all over "Democratic Presidential Aspirant Stuart Symington who was...Secretary of the new Air Force (1947-50), when the U.S. was asleep at the missile switch." This political mess sure is ugly, but TIME makes it easy to see where...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thank-You Note | 2/4/1959 | See Source »

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