Word: throughly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Shooting for the Sky. Audacious tinkering is under way at Illinois' offbeat Shimer College, once a University of Chicago affiliate, which is stoutly carrying on the ideas of Chicago's onetime boss, Robert Maynard Hutchins. Shimer accepts bright youngsters as early as sophomore year in high school, lets...
Skillfully selected and edited, the series' opener traced both Churchill and his country through the years that bridged the wars, from bursting shells among the trenches of 1918 to the first aerial bombardments of 1940. One fine vignette followed another: Churchill sitting in a wheelchair in Manhattan, bandages on...
On election night an impatient Democrat picked up a telephone and called Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel, hoping to persuade the Vice President of the U.S. to concede. Soon he was screaming at a switchboard operator who refused to put him through: "But this is Frank Sinatra!"
Frankie never did get through, but he wasn't kidding. Hollywood was more closely involved with the 1960 election than with any since the politically conscious 1930s. On the Republican side, Actor George Murphy was often called on to warm up audiences for Nixon, and Nixon's final...
Innovation Through Jack. Salinger's career at Collier's was short and bitter sweet: he was preparing an expose of West Coast Teamsters. Union operations when the magazine folded in 1956. Bobby Kennedy, counsel to the U.S. Senate's special subcommittee investigating labor rackets, heard of Salinger...