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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Atlantic District we would have to work ships diverted from the South. But we won't do it." Alexander P. Chopin, chairman of the New York Shipping Association, answered Bradley: "The public, which relied on the news of the extension to get thousands of tons of cargo moving toward the piers, have also been victimized by this flagrant violation of agreements. This may very well lead to one of the largest and costliest damage suits ever filed against a union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Deadlock on the Docks | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...Gang's All Here (by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee) has the authors of Inherit the Wind once again flipping back in U.S. history to the real life 19203, this time to Warren G. Harding under the name of Griffith P. Hastings. Their portrait is a largely familiar one of a genial poker-playing mediocrity who is hoisted into the White House. His cronies are crooks whom he turns into Cabinet members and on whose strong right claws he leans for support. At the end the authors portray a Harding who commits suicide,* but not until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play on Broadway, Oct. 12, 1959 | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

Small World (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.) Edward R. Murrow checks in from his leave of absence long enough to arrange an intercontinental chat between U.S. Poet Robert Frost, British ex-M.P. and Humorist A. P. Herbert, Brazilian Poetess and New York Consul General Senhora Dora Vasconcellos. Subject: Should man quit throwing objects at the moon, and leave it to poets and lovers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,,THEATER,BOOKS: Time Listings, Oct. 12, 1959 | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

Rowing about 100 yards away, John P. Hamilton '63 saw Bachrach in the water but arrived too late to aid. Hamilton immediately dived several times in unsuccessful attempts at rescue. According to Hamilton, the accident occurred within 20 yards of the shore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot House Student Dies in Boat Accident | 10/9/1959 | See Source »

...house. He works with few props-a top hat and a straw hat, a cane and an umbrella-but his simplest movements are vibrant with innuendo. Singing entirely in French, he baited his audiences last week into a wonderful medley of moods. In Ma Môme, Ma P'tite Môme he was every woman's protective lover, as his shoulder and arms curved in a possessive embrace; in the upbeat La Marie-Vison, about the perils of coveting a mink coat ("There must be other ways for a girl to keep warm"), he expressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: Troubadour from France | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

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