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...large segment of the American reading public has the peculiar obsession to "get inside" somebody--anybody--to see "what makes 'em tick." This urge has sent thousands of readers to book stores in order to buy monodies on everyone from a nondescript called something-or-other to a precocious French adolescent. The more personal, the more "revealing," the more embarassing such books are, the better readers like them. Needless to say, this obsession has not gone unsatisfied within recent memory. In view of such a spectacle, it can hardly discredit a reader to approach somewhat gingerly Orville Prescott...

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey, | Title: The Five Dollar Gold Piece | 2/11/1956 | See Source »

...impressive segment of the high command of the Republic of Korea's navy descended on Harvard yesterday for an unannounced informal visit. Vice Admiral Joung Kuk Mo, Korean Chief of Naval Operations (left) and Commodore Lee III Jung, Commander in Chief of the Fleet, were among the officers who took a quick look at the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: High Korean Naval Officials Visit College | 1/17/1956 | See Source »

...Mahdist spearmen were whipped. A year later the British made a treaty with Egypt, cutting Egypt in for a half share in the management of the Sudan. For all its name, the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (an area one-third the size of the U.S.) was a solid segment of the British Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUDAN: Trumpets Sounding | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

...sister of the willful murder of a three-month-old infant. After an endless autopsy, the coroner was able to prove that death had been caused by a bronchial infection. Unresolved in the story: what caused the infection and why there was no prior evidence of it. The best segment on NBC's Wide, Wide World also had a medical background, as the camera moved into a Baltimore schoolroom to record the moving responses of deaf children to the rhythms of music communicated through their fingertips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

Thus, private flyers fear that they will be knocked out of the air by an automatic control system. They demanded Lee be kept at CAA. However, airmen say that private planes will have their own segment of airways to fly on; later, they may be asked to buy a simple radar beacon to show controllers where they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Needed: Better Highways in the Sky | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

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