Word: william
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...verachte die Deutschen" ("I despise the Germans"), reads the caption beneath the photo of London Daily Mirror Columnist William Neil Connor on the cover of last week's Der Spiegel (circ. 350,000), West Germany's brisk, brash newsmagazine. Inside, in a ten-column question-and-answer interview headlined...
...five, NBC four. ¶ Commanding a tempest to rage in a tank at Hollywood's Television City, Director John Frankenheimer filmed a ferocious facsimile of the flooding Mississippi River for this week's TV version (Playhouse 90) of William Faulkner's novelette Old Man. The story hurls a convict (Sterling Hayden) into the 1927 flood and tells of his heroic struggle to save a pregnant woman (Geraldine Page) before society thrusts him back in the pen with no thanks and ten years extra. Director Frankenheimer prodded Convict Hayden through three days' filming without sleep, drove...
Died. John Randolph Hearst, 49, assistant general manager of the Hearst newspapers, third of the five sons of the late William Randolph Hearst; in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands...
...scramble for shares shows up most clearly in lower-priced stocks, which are more attractive to the public than higher-priced blue chips. When Lehman Bros, brought out its One William Street Fund at a price of $12.50, it got more shareholders in a day than F. W. Woolworth Co. (now selling for about 50) has had at any one time in its history. Last week issues selling for less than $25 a share numbered nine of the week's 15 most active stocks. Rumors of stock splits, and resulting lower prices per share, also sent higher-priced stocks...
Henry Adams had the arrogance of his ignorance. To William James he railed at the failure of man to acquire "a single vital fact worth knowing." He was obsessed with the American fallacy that life was some kind of inside story that an enterprising philosopher-reporter could crack wide open: "We may some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and immortality...