Word: ages
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...world situation being what it is, Maryland's lame-duck Senator Millard R. Tydings announced, the family had decided to cancel the elaborate "coming-of-age ball" in Washington's Mayflower Hotel for their pretty, blonde, 18-year-old daughter Eleanor. Both parents and grandparents, onetime Ambassador and Mrs. Joseph E. Davies, decided it would be better to substitute "a small and simple" dance at the Chevy Chase Club "in keeping with the austerity of the times...
Although the death rate of every age group in the U.S. has been declining steadily since 1940, U.S. men are still dying off faster than women, said the National Office of Vital Statistics last week. In the last decade, the death rate for the female population decreased 13%, while the rate for males decreased only...
This atomic-age potboiler appears to make sense to its adolescent audience. Many adult viewers are soon lost in its trackless, pseudo-technical doubletalk ("Forty-seven degrees inclination, speed seven miles per second; temperature calibrated at zero three; interior pressure stable at nine oh nine"), or by the sudden mid-program appearance on Captain Video's "Scanner" of a five-minute stretch of western movie. Du Mont's Vice President James L. Caddigan, who created Captain Video in 1949, explains: "The western is there to give us the pace and action that...
...masterly, some amateurish. He pursued an erratic career as reporter and war correspondent. He made punishing journeys to wars and insurrections, and he acquired a Bohemian notoriety that reads like a composite of Poe and De Quincey. A rebellious spirit, he took a peculiarly joyless pleasure in scandalizing the age. A groundless charge of drug addiction provoked a characteristic response: he concocted a piece on the opium habit...
...Disenchanted, by Budd Schulberg. The last chapters in the decline & fall of a novelist who had been the Jazz Age's darling; a novel largely modeled on the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald (TIME...