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In 1954 the Government filed a civil suit against RCA containing many of the same charges. RCA has been negotiating with the Government on the suit (which is still pending), was caught by surprise by the new charges. The trustbusters switched to the broader criminal indictment because RCA has "persisted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: RCA Under Fire | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

A Pan American World Airways plane crash near Lisbon in 1943 all but ended the big-time careers of throaty Singer Jane (With a Song in My Heart) Froman and Accordionist Gypsy Markoff, both bound overseas to entertain troops. It was five years before Jane could walk again without crutches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 24, 1958 | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

The President and McElroy will have to hustle to beat Congress. At week's end Connecticut Republican Senator Prescott Bush let it be known that he is drafting his own legislation, based upon the Rockefeller Report, calling for a chief of staff empowered, under the Secretary of Defense and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Reorganization Man | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

Girlish Sins. The Diary is full of the fun, the beauty, and some of the pain of growing up in a primitive town where recently freed slaves were still living with their old masters by choice. Helena is by turns gay and sad, willful and full of remorse for her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rich Little Poor Girl | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

Margaret emerges no mere victim, no strong woman exacerbated by a weak husband and a hard fate. Hers is a willful, self-righteous strength gloating over weakness in others; hers is a puritan nature full of repressed sexuality and cankering resentments, and the conviction that what has happened is retribution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 2, 1957 | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

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