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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After steaming into a Manhattan pier on the liner Queen Elizabeth, Uganda's formidable King George Rukidi III of Toro, 54, father of 27 children by quite a few wives, was heartily greeted by U.N. Undersecretary Ralph Bunche. Decked out in his black bowler, black jacket and white ekanzu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 16, 1959 | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

The ultimate purpose of the "invidious" nationality quotas, he declared was to perptuate the Anglo-Saxon, Nordic character of the American population. "If there was justification for this act in the xenophobia of 1924, there is no longer such an excuse," he said.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jaffe Hits McCarran Act Quotas, Suggests Revised Immigration Law | 11/13/1959 | See Source »

Only toward the end of the second act does Mrs. Alving's character begin to evolve. Goaded by Parson Manders, she tells of her life with her husband. The third act includes some exquisitely written dramatic moments, as Mrs. Alving learns of her son's disease and Osvald (who has...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: Ghosts | 11/13/1959 | See Source »

The pivotal figure in the play is, of course, Mrs. Alving, but as Anne Miner portrays her she is constrained almost to the point of inarticulateness. In the minor roles, Lisa Commager (the Alving's maid) is beautiful and occasionally quite good, while Laurence Jacobs often misinterprets the character of...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: Ghosts | 11/13/1959 | See Source »

For most of Author Berry's exotic, expertly written comic novel, Peter is bivouacked in a native village while scouting his python. The chief's head wife plies him with roast bats, and the chief himself leeringly confides the secret which has enabled him to live (or so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wild Quaker Oats | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

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