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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ANOTHER innovation in TIME this week is the global year-end review of business. Research for it came from 75 on-the-spot reports from staff correspondents and stringers around the entire world. In past years the review has largely concentrated on the U.S. economy. In 1959 it was apparent that the most interesting economic story of the year was the vast spread of U.S. ideas and U.S. methods to the world, not only to the already industrialized nations of Europe, but also to scores of underdeveloped lands just beginning the long march to prosperity...
...than Justin Brooks Atkinson, 65. Part of his effect stems from the fact that he is the Times critic and part from his own reputation built through the years. "Half our lives,'' says Broadway Producer David Merrick (Fanny, La Plume de Ma Tante), "depend on a good review from Atkinson." Says Producer Alfred de Liagre Jr. (J.B.): "In terms of influence, Brooks is worth any four of the other critics." These awed testimonials go to a man who shifts uneasily beneath the burden of his influence ("Power bothers me; I'd rather not have...
Claims Staked. Three presidential hopefuls have staked out claims on the area. In Puerto Rico last week, Senator Hubert Humphrey proposed a program of greater economic aid, arms reductions, a review of U.S. trade and tariff policies. Adlai Stevenson will tour Latin America in February. Nelson Rockefeller, the State Department's 1940-44 coordinator of inter-American affairs, recently suggested a single common market embracing the U.S. and the 20 Latin American states. Other high-level concern...
Drawing on the album's conscientious liner notes, Down Beat explained that the late Pianist Hammer was a shy fellow from Glen Springs, Ala., who committed his art to posterity only once, at a recording session in Nashville, Tenn. in 1956. Another glowing Hammer review appeared in the New York World-Telegram & Sun: "His recent death was a tragic loss . . . A great album." Then San Francisco Chronicle Columnist Ralph J. Gleason played the record, found that Buck had an advantage over other pianists -he was apparently born with three hands. Last week the perpetrator of the hoax confessed that...
...Thomas were willing. So she set out on horseback, the tumor resting on the saddle pommel, from Greensburg to Danville, Ky. The 60-mile journey lasted "a few days"-Dr. McDowell does not record just how many. Then, according to his own report in the Eclectic Repertory and Analytical Review...