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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last year. Fogarty wanted the U.S. to withhold Britain's $687,100,000 share of ECA dollars until the Redcoats got out of Northern Ireland. Last week Congressmen with Irish names, and others who were only looking for a chance to embarrass the Administration, suddenly and whimsically leaped aboard Fogarty's dream boat. After being assured that they could duck out again whenever they wanted, they voted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fogarty's Dream Boat | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

...played a mean trick on his own avant-garde admirers by reverting to painting gushy landscapes of Southern France, where he spent much of his time racing around in flashy motorcars or lolling aboard his yacht...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Old Trickster | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

...then wound things up with resounding performances of Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor and Sibelius' Finlandia. As usual, they mingled with the audience afterward, but this time they had something special to talk about. With the proceeds from their concert, 70 of them would climb aboard a Stratocruiser in two weeks, take off, kit & caboodle, for a two-month tour of Scandinavia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: On to Scandinavia | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

...casts John Payne* as a tough ex-skipper. He is out to get the scoundrel (Lon Chancy Jr.) who locked him in his cabin, innocently sleeping off a drunk, while the treacherous first mate (Jeffrey Lynn) ran his ship onto a reef and left it sinking. As a passenger aboard another ship carrying the villains, Payne gets his revenge during a China Sea voyage marked by gory fisticuffs, a typhoon and romantic dalliance with a supposedly exotic tramp (Gail Russell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 3, 1950 | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

Between 200 and 600 Danish Limfjord oysters were flying one way each week aboard a transport plane between Copenhagen and Cairo. In an attempt to lose weight without sacrifice of vitality, Egypt's pudgy King Farouk had put himself on an oyster diet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Cheers & Catcalls | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

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