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Pigeons have been carrying messages ever since a water-locked Noah sent a dove out to bring tidings of land. Caesar, campaigning in Gaul, used pigeons to carry news of his exploits to Rome. In World War I a homing pigeon named Cher Ami, on duty with the famed Lost...
For twelve years, the Jefferson School of Social Science had sent its students forth from a nine-story building on Manhattan's Avenue of the Americas grounded thoroughly, if not in the tenets of Jeffersonian democracy, at least in the ABCs of Marxism. Founded in 1944, the school flourished...
From the dinky little salvage vessel Daiei Maru (a misnomer, for it means Great Prosperity), Oyama plunged into Nagasaki Bay in hopes of salvaging enough scrap iron to make it worth the effort and risk. Four times he went down 192 ft. with nothing untoward. Raised to the Daiei Maru...
¶ New York Lawyer Thomas E. Dewey, 54, twice (1944, 1948) G.O.P. nominee for President, proved administrator in his twelve years as governor of New York, still very much a power in the G.O.P. ¶ Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., 54, well schooled in the ways...
Unlike the old Nasser, the new Nasser devoted a good deal of his time to defensive-sounding explanations. The singularly unimpressive performance of the Egyptian air force was explained away as a clever trick. "Our pilots," said he, "were ordered to stay grounded despite their protests . . . We put dummy planes...