Word: oct
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oct. 10 Press story (with picture) on good-looking Sheila Daly, teenagers' columnist for the Chicago Tribune and 34 other newspapers, produced, she says, the following reaction : 1 ) Six proposals of marriage, 2) an offer of a date for the Army-Navy football game from a West Point cadet, 3) a score of letters and telegrams on miscellaneous subjects, 4) a visit from a Hollywood representative to discuss a movie about a teen-age girl columnist. Miss Daly thinks that she would like to be technical adviser for that...
...nightfall of Oct. 21, 1805, the battle off Trafalgar was all but over. Admiral Lord Nelson, who paid for the victory with his life, had become forever the great captain of the seagoing British Empire. But to one commander in the shattered French fleet, there seemed at least a chance of honorable escape. Accompanied by three French ships of the line, Rear Admiral Dumanoir le Pelley sheeted home his sails and set off in his flagship, the 74-gun Duguay-Trouin, for the safety of a French Atlantic port. Badly scarred by gunfire from Nelson's own ship Victory...
President Juan Perón launched a new and bitter campaign last week against Argentina's leading newspapers, La Prensa and La Nación. He announced that he would prosecute them under his new law of "disrespect" (TIME, Oct. 10) for reporting a speech in which he was accused of enriching himself while in office...
...permanent home in which he can polish old works and plan new ones, Russian-born Choreographer Balanchine, a U.S. citizen for ten years, hopes he is on the road to a permanent American ballet company, something like Britain's national ballet, the Sadler's Wells (TIME, Oct. 17). One step in the direction of making it a "real American" ballet was the addition to the staff this season of bright, witty, U.S.-born Choreographer Jerome (Fancy Free) Robbins...
Pinky. The most skillful propaganda-entertainment to come out of Hollywood's current preoccupation with the plight of the U.S. Negro (TIME, Oct...