Dali’s cauliflower lecture at Sorbonne confounds with art tale
Salvador Dali arrived in a black and white Rolls Royce packed with fresh cauliflower to a Sorbonne lecture on rhinoceros horns sunflowers and cauliflower. He described a delirious painting path from Vermeer’s The Lacemaker to Rhinoceros horns and Sunflowers, sparked by a bread crumb elbow pain and a rhinoceros horn walking stick. The talk, staged by the International Center of Esthetic Research, drew about a thousand students and many photographers as Dali traced his quirky creative chain from Figueres to the Louvre masterworks.
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Paris
Salvador Dali
Sorbonne University
International Center of Esthetic Research
Louvre
Jan Vermeer de Delft
Dali
Figueros
Vermeer
Seven Percent Freight Rate Increase Sought by Railroads
Chicago report notes chief traffic officers of the nation's railroads will petition the Interstate Commerce Commission for a seven percent freight rate rise to offset wage and material cost increases. The move follows a Washington meeting where the plan was drafted, and comes after a prior 15 percent increase authorized in 1952. An emergency board also recommended higher wages for about 750,000 non operating employees, with welfare extensions advised.
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Chicago
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
ICC
Kefauver Seeks Unity for 1956 Democratic Bid
Kefauver vows to boost party unity and strength for a vigorous 1956 campaign. He plans to enter primaries in several states, with Florida May 29 cited by backers, while others consider where he will challenge Stevenson.
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Kefauver
Chicago
Stevenson
Eisenhower
Minnesota
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Florida
California
Miami
Frank Katzentine
Francis A. Costillo
New Hampshire
Ohio
Frank J. Lausche
Baltimore
Maryland
Thomas D’alesandro
Marylland
Bricker
Goodwin J. Knight
Nixon
Knight
Gan
Rep
Hiestand
Walter Reuther
AFL Cio
Sen
Goldwater
Arizona
Reuther
Republican Party
UAW
GOP
Eisenhower plan eyed in abortive disarmament vote
At the United Nations Assembly a wide debate followed a lottery based open sky proposal by Eisenhower. Yugoslavia led with 34 votes and the Philippines 19 as delegates pressed for adjournment. The Western backed disarmament plan was adopted 56 to 7 despite strong Western Latin and Australian opposition. The Soviet bloc denounced the plan as incomplete without arms cuts.
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Maza
Yugoslavia
Philippines
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
U.S
Vasily V. Kuznetsov
Sir Pierson Dixon
Mates
Romulo
Australia
New Zealland
Soviet Union
Disarmament Commission
United States
Warren's winter hunt yields twenty ducks and ten geese near Colusa
Chief Justice Earl Warren and two friends bagged 20 ducks and 10 geese on his first day of a winter holiday near Colusa California. The hunt was reported from the area as Warren enjoys a rest from public duties with companions in a rural setting.
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Colusa
Calif. T
Earl Warren
California
Judge Fines Man 25 Cents For Contempt In Domestic Case
In Fulton superior court judge FE Andrews held Joseph T Looney Jr in contempt for violating a restraining order by visiting a drugstore where his wife worked and using abusive language. The judge imposed a 25 cent fine which Looney paid saying he had no money.
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Fulton Superior Court
Louise Kuher Looney
Joseph T. Looney Jr
Looney
FE. E. Andrews
British Soldier Killed on Cyprus Terrorist Attack
NICOSIA Cyprus a British soldier was killed last night in an isolated police station attack on the northeastern tip of Cyprus. Terrorists cut telephone lines to Yialousa and attacked the station with rifle fire and grenades. A British soldier and a young Cypriot girl were injured by a bomb in a Limassol street yesterday.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Yialousa
Limassol
Free Trade Unions Group Hits Reds
The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions advised members in eight countries to avoid exchanging visiting delegations with Communist labor groups. The board said delegations give Communist dictatorships a chance to win moral respectability and legitimacy for their state company unions.
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New York
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
Confederation
Notable 1930s mental health case linked to Texas judge
Pierson, adjudged insane at a murder trial, was committed to the Austin State Hospital after claiming he killed his parents for his father’s $17,000 life insurance. He staged escapes in 1938 and again in 1952, was recaptured, and lived under an assumed name while working odd jobs. Two Texas officers were en route to return him to the hospital.
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Pierson
Austin
Tex
Texas
Lee Allen
William Pierson
Texas Supreme Court
Minneapolis
Gilbert Wagner
Wagner
Ohio
R. C. Rowell
Rowell
Russians Seek Afghan Support At Kabul State Banquet
Soviet Premier Bulganin and Khrushchev courted Afghan leaders at a Kabul banquet, backing Sardar Daud’s push for a separate state Pushtunistan. Moscow pledged help with road paving and buses, signaling a shift as Pakistan’s stance on Pathan tribals drew regional tension. The United States promoted aid like the Helmand Valley project, though its reach remained limited.
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Nikolai Bulganin
Kabul
Pushtoonistan
Pakistan
Bulganin
Nikita Khrushchev
Premie Sardar Mohamoud Daud
Bulgaria
Afghanistan
West
Indus River
Pathan
Karachi
Khyber Pass
Soviet Union
Russia
United States
Helmand Valley
Ryan Undergoing Psychiatric Study at Bellevue Hospital
New York reports Joseph P. Ryan longtime president emeritus of the International Longshoremen's Assn is a voluntary patient in Bellevue Hospital psychiatry division. Officials said he entered the hospital three days ago and his condition is satisfactory. Ryan faces federal income tax evasion charges and is set for trial next April.
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New York
Joseph P. Ryan
The
International Longshoremen's Assn
Ind
Bellevue Hospital
Ryan
Burglar Vanishes With Meat Then Steals Birds
Thad L. Graves reported a break in in Half Moon Bay. A thief took 60 pounds of hamburger from the freezer and fed it to Graves's wolfhounds to quiet them while 75 parakeets were stolen from his aviary.
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Half Moon Bay
Calif
Thad L. Graves
Grays’ Aviary
Fringe of Typhoon Hits Two Jima
A typhoon swept past Iwo Jima battering the American Air Force Base with 60 mph winds. The small garrison lost radio contact for nearly 12 hours and hid in storm proof caves. Communications, restored near 10 p.m., relayed that the base was operational. The island avoided the storm’s main force, which reached 145 mph.
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Tokyo
Iwo Jima
U.S
Battle Island
Japan
Iowa Jima
MacRae Fined 315 As Drunk Driver
SAN FERNANDO Calif Singer Gordon MacRae was convicted of drunk driving after police said he flunked a sobriety test following a traffic accident. He had pleaded innocent and demanded a jury trial, but yesterday he waived trial and submitted the case to Judge Julian Beck.
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San Fernando
Calif
Gordon MacRae
MacRae
Julian Beck
Attractive gal seeks man with opposite payday traits
Coldwater Michigan ad notes a playful want ad from a weekly paper. It quotes: an attractive gal who gets paid on Friday and is broke on Tuesday wishes to meet a man who gets paid on Tuesday and is broke by Friday. This lighthearted exchange highlights payday quirks.
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Coldwater, Mich
Coldwater Advertiser
Loon Finds New Life With Bermuda Flight Aid
A red throated loon rescued in Saranac Lake New York by veterinarian Dr. Alton Bouton was ferried by Colonial Airlines to Bermuda where the Bermuda zoo agreed to take it. The exhausted diver and fish eater, stranded since December, could not survive in the Adirondacks frozen lakes.
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New York
Saranac Lake
N. Y
Bermuda
Alton P. Bouton
Bouton
Adirondacks
Colonial Airlines
Baffled Librarians Learn Power of the Press
Rochester Public Library staff find quick answers after a reporter wrote on three reader questions. A Dumont New Jersey letter claimed John Johnston of Worcester originated the traffic cloverleaf. Rochester residents provided offices for the poem The Doctors Prayer and traced the phrase Tell it to Sweeney to a Famous Advertisements catalogue and then to the U S Marine Corps with further origins yet undetermined.
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Rochester
Rochester Public Library
Robert Asman
Dumont
N. J
John Johnston
Worcester
Mass
Johnston
Massachusetts Highway Department
Library of Physicians
Sweeney
New York Daily News
Stuyvesants
U. S. Marine Corps
Jacksonville Man Receives Five Year North Carolina Ban
Huey Long Meadows was arrested in a courtroom for passing bad checks and given a five year ban from North Carolina by Judge Henry Grady on an abandonment and non support conviction. Sheriff Thomas Marshall detained him after he attempted to leave the state, noting the suspended sentence did not apply to the charges.
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Jacksonville
N.C
Huey Long Meadows
Meadows
Henry Grady
North Carolina
Thomas Marshall
Grady
Sheriff
German Red Urges Force in West Berlin Overthrow
Berlin. Alfred Neumann, first secretary of the Berlin Communist Party, calls West Berlin workers to join Reds and topple the West Berlin government. He demands the Americans leave and repeats that the Soviet zone government is sovereign with Berlin as its capital as East Germany tightens borders at two elevated railway stations.
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Berlin
West Berlin
Reds
Alfred Neumann
Communist Party
Neumann
Communist
Who Is Cutting Her Shade Trees
In Fall River Massachusetts an unidentified person severed half of four 10 inch diameter shade trees on Mrs Anne L Mitchells property. She asked police to investigate noting the trees were cut so they could topple onto the house when the wind blows.
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Fall River
Mass
Anne L. Mitchell
Queen and Duke Join Windsor Castle Christmas Ball
In Windsor England the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh danced with staff members at the annual Windsor Castle Christmas ball held Friday night in the Waterloo Chamber. Queen Mother Elizabeth and Princess Margaret attended the festivities alongside other castle staff.
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Windsor
England
Queen Elizabeth
Duke of Edinburgh
Windsor Castle
Elizabeth
Princess Margaret
Waterloo
Four Under 3 Die in Fire Near Mission Texas
Four children aged seven months to three years died when an explosion and fire destroyed a quonset hut farmhouse seven miles north of Mission Texas. Fire Chief Ray Landry said the structure was completely consumed and the victims were found charred. The mother had briefly stepped outside to fetch a wrench for a husband operating a nearby tractor. The children were Eva Mercado three, Amadeo Mercado seven months, Marie de Rosario Moncerrata two, and Maria de Moncerrata nine months.
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Mission, Tex
Mission
Ray Landry
Eva Mercado
Amadeo Mercado
Marie de Rosario Moncerrata
Maria de Moncerrata
Pay Check Cashed Twice Case at Rikers Guard Charged
A New York grand jury probes William A Warfield Jr. 51 of Jamaica Queens for cashing his Oct 30 pay check twice at The Tombs Manhattan City Prison. Warfield, a Rikers Island guard, was suspended by Corrections Commissioner Anna Kross.
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New York
Rikers Island
William A. Warfield Jr
Jamaica
Queens
Anna Kross
William R Peer
Robert F. Wagner
Warfield
Manhattan City Prison
the Tombs
Peer
Bandit Trio Rob UPS Warehouse in Queens Shooting
In a $600 warehouse heist at the United Parcel Service facility in Long Island City three gunmen posed as workers. They fired on staff, killing 45 year old Julian Urbanasky and wounding driver Edward Morenski while Charles Rodentz was struck and fled as the trio escaped in a nearby car.
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New York
United Parcel Service
Long Island City
Queens
Charles Rodentz
Rodentz
Bloomingdale
Julian Urbanasky
Edward Morenski
Baldwin, N. Y
Hotel Burns Two Killed In Fire At Attaquin
Two men died and three others were injured when the Attaquin Hotel burned in Mashpee Massachusetts early today. Sgt. George Gray and Sgt. Luke Concannon, both 27 and 37, stationed at Otis Air Force Base, were identified among the dead. Owner Thomas Lyons, 32, Miss Alice Fitzpatrick, 35, hotel employee, and Air Force Sgt. Bruce Tucker, 34, jumped from the second floor and survived with non serious injuries. Cape Cod Hospital treated the injured. five people were in the hotel at the time.
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Mashpee
Mass
Attaquin
George Gray
Luke Concannon
Otis Air Force Base
Thomas Lyons
Alice Fitzpatrick
Air Force Set
Bruce Tucker
Garrett, Pa
Cape Cod Hospital
Hyannis
Tokyo Fire Traps Five Youths in Downtown Blaze
A downtown Tokyo fire early today trapped and burned five young factory workers to death. Police said two others, including a fireman, were hospitalized as five houses were destroyed or damaged.
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Tokyo
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