Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Communist Ho Chi Minh's army, after seven weeks of success, has the French forces in northern Indo-China bottled up around the cities of Hanoi and Haiphong. A full-scale attack is expected. Are the French strong enough to hold out? Seeking an answer to this and related questions, TIME'S London Bureau Chief Eric Gibbs flew into Hanoi last fortnight...
Among labor's losers in the House were such union stalwarts as Andrew Biemiller of Wisconsin, who helped lead the northern faction against the Dixiecrats in 1948; Andy Jacobs of Indiana, a onetime labor lawyer; Thomas Burke of Ohio, a C.I.O. member; Stephen Young of Ohio, who had retired Taft's friend George Bender in 1948, only to be beaten by Bender...
Died. Julia Marlowe (real name: Sarah Frances Frost), 84, for almost four decades (1887-1924) one of the brightest stars of the American stage; in Manhattan. Born in northern England of farmer stock, she moved to Kansas with her family at five, played her first stage part in Cincinnati at twelve, reached Broadway stardom in 1887. Best known for her warm, throaty "Juliet" and "Ophelia," she toured the U.S. for years with her husband, famed Actor E. H. Sothern ("Sothern & Marlowe"), made Shakespeare a big box-office attraction. She retired in 1924, lived in seclusion at Manhattan's Plaza...
...delegation to discuss possible settling of differences and withdrawal of Chinese troops from Korea. At present no one is sure of Mao's real aims in entering the fight. "Perhaps what the Chinese really fear," Secretary of State Acheson said Wednesday, "is the loss of their interest in the northern border area-notably the Yalu River power installations. If so, the U. S. will do everything possible to make certain they know their interests will be protected...
During her years (1931-45) as Conservative M.P. for Wallsend, Northumberland, Miss Irene Ward found it necessary to make many trips to London. She used to leave the sleeper at King's Cross Station and go straight to the railways-owned Great Northern Hotel for a morning bath and breakfast. Then, like a wet towel flung in her Tory face, came the Socialist government and its nationalization of railways and railway hotels...