Fifties (150 page)

Teller, K. T.,
615

Teller, Mici,
89
,
353

Texaco Star Theatre
,
185

“That’s When Your Heartaches Begin,”
457

Theory of Games
(von Neumann),
31

There Will Be No Time: The Revolution in Strategy
(Borden),
331-32

Thomas, J. Parnell,
14
,
27-28

Thomas, Rufus,
458

Thompson, Howard,
483

Thompson, Llewellyn,
722

Thorndyke, Sybil,
564

Throckmorton, John,
104

Thurber, James,
183
,
654

Tic Tac Dough
,
646

Tight White Collar, The
(Metalious),
585

Till, Emmett,
430-40
,
441
,
452
,
560
,
676

Time
,
13
,
21
,
30
,
50
,
185
,
191
,
193
,
330
,
398
,
456
,
573
,
655

Times
(London),
408

Today
,
657
,
688

Tolson, Clyde,
313
,
335-36

Toman, Ed,
158-59
,
162

Toriello (Guatemalan foreign minister),
379
,
385

Toth, Emily,
579-80

Town and the City, The
(Kerouac),
304

Toys “R” Us,
153

Trainer, Harry,
333

Treadmill to Oblivion
(Allen),
184

Trilling, Lionel,
298
,
654

Trujillo, Rafael Leonidas,
376
,
716

Truman, Bess,
22

Truman, Harry S,
4
,
6
,
8
,
10
,
11
,
18-19
,
40
,
53
,
56
,
66
,
67
,
68-69
,
78-79
,
84
,
101
,
102
,
105
,
106
,
109
,
112
,
118
,
190
,
193
,
204
,
313
,
364
,
371
,
390
,
397
,
415
,
423
,
605
,
686
,
700
,
732

Acheson on,
23

assessment of,
20-24

background of,
22

demobilization and,
28

Guatemala coup and,
378

H-bomb decision of,
36
,
42
,
44
,
45-46

J. Edgar Hoover and,
339-40

MacArthur fired by,
57
,
113-14
,
115
,
204

MacArthur’s meeting with,
85-86
,
105

national emergency declared by,
110

1952 election and,
210
,
218
,
221-22
,
223

Oppenheimer’s meeting with,
35

Soviet A-bomb and,
25-26
,
27

Supreme Court appointees of,
411-12

on Taft,
205

Truman, Margaret,
19
,
69

Truman Doctrine,
23

Tuck, James,
31

Tukhachevsky, Mikhail,
614

Turner, Fred,
163
,
166

Turner, Ike,
469
,
691

“Tutti Frutti,”
471

Twenty-One
,
647-50
,
654
,
656
,
657
,
664

Twining, Nathan,
404

“Two Are an Island” (Friedan),
593

Two-Bit Culture
(Davis),
59
,
579

Tydings, Millard,
56

Tyler, William,
503

Ubico Castaneda, Jorge,
374
,
376-77

Ulam, Stanislaw,
41
,
90
,
92
,
95
,
97
,
98
,
331

unions,
117-18
,
138

United Auto Workers (UAW),
119

United Fruit Company,
374
,
376-78
,
379
,
381
,
712
,
713
,
714
,
716

United Mine Workers,
117

United Motors Corporation,
121

United Nations,
112
,
219
,
221
,
701
,
724

United Press,
51
,
55
,
717

UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer),
96

Universal Military Training (UMT),
28
,
191

Urey, Harold,
341

U-2 aircraft,
616-21
,
699
,
703

Soviet downing of,
704-11

Van Cleve, Edith,
269

Vandenberg, Arthur,
26

Vandenberg, Hoyt,
109
,
112

Van Doren, Charles,
650-65

Van Doren, Geraldine,
664

Van Doren, Mamie,
492
,
564

Van Doren, Mark,
651
,
652
,
653
,
654
,
662
,
663

Van Dusen, Henry Pitney,
278
,
279
,
280

Van Fleet, Jo,
482

Vannikov, Boris,
47

Van Susteren, Urban,
252

Variety
,
186

Veblen, Oswald,
94

Venet, Nik,
507

Vengeance is Mine
(Spillane),
60

Vietminh,
397
,
398-403
,
408
,
409
,
718

Vietnam,
53
,
73
,
74
,
718
,
723

partition of,
408

Vineberg, Steven,
479

Vinson, Fred,
222
,
411-12
,
415

Vivas, Eliseo,
530

Volkswagen Beetle,
636-39
,
641

Volpe, Joseph,
39
,
343

Voluntary Parenthood
(Loth),
601

von Braun, Magnus,
607

von Braun, Wernher,
351
,
606-12
,
621-22
,
626
,
627

Vo Nguyen Giap,
398
,
400
,
402
,
409

von Neumann, John,
31
,
93
,
98
,
331
,
349

background of,
94-95

computer designed by,
96-97

personality of,
95

politics of,
95-96

Voorhis, Jerry,
212-13
,
311
,
319
,
324

Wakefield, Dan,
531
,
532

Wakeman, Frederic,
500-501

Wald, Jerry,
585

Walker, George,
127

Walker, Walter,
75-76
,
103-4
,
110

Wallace, George,
562
,
689

Wallace, Henry,
27
,
56

Wallace, Mike,
584
,
604

Wallis, Hal,
477

Wall Street Journal
,
341

Walters, Vernon,
363

Ward, T. J.,
545

Warner, Jack,
256

Warren, Earl,
115
,
208
,
211-12
,
213
,
312
,
415-22

background of,
415-17

Brown
decision and,
422

political career of,
416-18

of racism,
420-21

Washington Post
,
56
,
190
,
205
,
250
,
680
,
699
,
707

Watergate scandal,
317
,
359
,
372
,
658

Watson, Tom, Jr.,
93
,
96
,
97

Watson, Tom, Sr.,
96

Wayne, John,
212

Wedemeyer, Albert,
68

Weismuller, Tony,
168-69

Weisner, Jerome,
92

Weisskopf, Victor,
32
,
33
,
37
,
89
,
90
,
330-31
,
344
,
348

Welker, Herman R.,
57

Wells, Herman,
276-78

Werblin, Sonny,
659

West, Jessamyn,
315
,
321-22

West, Rebecca,
372-73

Westfeldt, Wallace,
680

Westinghouse,
496
,
498-99

Weybright, Victor,
60
,
61

Weyl, Hermann,
95

“What Every Girl Should Know” (Sanger),
284

“What I Found in the Underworld” (Kefauver),
193

What’s My Line?
,
193

Wheeler, John,
342

Wheeling Intelligencer
,
50

Wherry, Kenneth S.,
57

White, Bill,
8

White, William Allen,
7

White Citizens Council,
429
,
547
,
555
,
560
,
671

White Collar
(Mills),
485
,
531-33

Whitman, Ann,
328
,
729

Whitten, John,
433
,
440

Why Johnny Can’t Read—and What You Can Do About It
(Flesch),
625

Wieland, William,
715

Wilder, Billy,
563
,
564
,
567

Wilder, Thornton,
184
,
257
,
266

Wild One, The
,
268

Williams, Cornelius Coffin,
257-58

Williams, Edwina Dakin,
257-59

Williams, Hank,
558

Williams, Robert Chadwell,
41
,
46

Williams, Rose,
258
,
259

Williams, Ted,
695

Williams, Tennessee,
254-62
,
267
,
270-73

Williams, William Carlos,
307

Willkie, Wendell,
4
,
5-6
,
208
,
217
,
653