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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...place in Yankee legend with the 5 that Joe DiMaggio wore, the 4 that Lou Gehrig wore, and the 3 that Babe Ruth wore (a number now officially retired by the Yankees). That would mean years of recurring headaches for American League pitchers, years of merrily clicking turnstiles for Yank:ee Stadium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Young Man on Olympus | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

Blues on the River (Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band; Decca LP). Trumpeter Yank Lawson and Bass Fiddler Bob Haggart, onetime nerve centers of Bob Crosby's Bobcats, take their outfit on a music ride down the Mississippi (from Davenport, Iowa to New Orleans) in the grand old style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Mar. 16, 1953 | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

...butter problem be solved? Answered an executive of one of the Midwest's biggest creameries last week: "Butter never will make it unless they yank out the supports and let butter go to a competitive 50?-or wherever supply & demand pegs it . . . Who can pay 70? a lb. for butter when you can get margarine for 30??" Such a proposal would hardly sit well with the dairy farmers. But many a butter dealer last week thought that something could be learned from the experience of potato farmers. Since supports were dropped from potatoes nearly 18 months ago, the market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: The Butter Glut | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

...calls for ten pictures a year, but Jungle Sam keeps his program "flexible," i.e., a batch of titles adaptable to any situation, usually some front-page news. A few days after the Korean war broke out, a Columbia executive sighed for a Korean film. "How would you like A Yank in Korea?" asked Sam. "Great!" replied the executive. Six weeks and two days later, A Yank in Korea (a remake of A Yank in the R.A.F. and predecessor of A Yank in Indo-China) was ready for distribution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Jungle Sam | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

...from the Middle East, it was decided that the job was too much for even such a peripatetic correspondent as Bell. Late this spring he was joined by Dave Richardson, who had been a TIME correspondent in New Delhi, Germany and London, and before that a combat correspondent for Yank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 8, 1952 | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

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