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During the 1950s Clifford's address was 'Belmore', Queen's Road, Cowes, Isle of Wight. [12] He died of heart failure at the age of 55 in Singapore, where he was examining for the Associated Board. [10]
It was a downtown landmark, housing the retail space Clifford’s Ladies Wear from 1961 to its closing in 2001. Construction on the building shortly began after a fire in 1957. The fire destroyed the one storey building listed as 412 - 416 Portage Avenue.
I Remember Clifford is a heartfelt jazz composition written by Benny Golson as a tribute to his dear friend and fellow jazz musician, Clifford Brown. The song was written as an elegy to commemorate Clifford’s life and his tragic demise at a young age.
The balance of Clifford's memorandum focused on electoral strategy, specifically the key states and cities on which Truman should focus. Clifford's final recommendation regarding strategy proved crucial to the success of the whistle-stop tours.
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Historians use the word “boom” to describe a lot of things about the 1950s: the booming economy, the booming suburbs and most of all the so-called “baby boom.” This boom began in 1946, when a record number of babies–3.4 million–were born in the United States. About 4 million babies were born each year during the 1950s. In all, by the time the boom ...
The baby boom and the suburban boom went hand in hand. Almost as soon as World War II ended, developers such as William Levitt (whose “Levittowns” in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania would become the most famous symbols of suburban life in the 1950s) began to buy land on the outskirts of cities and use mass production techniques to build modes...
A growing group of Americans spoke out against inequality and injustice during the 1950s. African Americans had been fighting against racial discrimination for centuries; during the 1950s, however, the struggle against racism and segregation entered the mainstream of American life. For example, in 1954, in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education c...
The tension between the United States and the Soviet Union, known as the Cold War, was another defining element of the 1950s. After World War II, Western leaders began to worry that the USSR had what one American diplomat called “expansive tendencies”; moreover, they believed that the spread of communism anywhere threatened democracy and capitalism...
In the 1950s, televisions became something the average family could afford, and by 1950 4.4 million U.S. families had one in their home. The Golden Age of Television was marked by family-friendly shows like I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, The Twilight Zone and Leave It To Beaver. In movie theaters, actors like John Wayne, James Stuart, Charlton Hest...
Elvis Presley. Sam Cooke. Chuck Berry. Fats Domino. Buddy Holly. The 1950s saw the emergence of Rock ‘n’ Roll, and the new sound swept the nation. It helped inspire rockabilly music from Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash. People swayed to The Platters and The Drifters. Music marketing, changed, too: For the first time, music began to target youth. On...
The booming prosperity of the 1950s helped to create a widespread sense of stability, contentment and consensus in the United States. However, that consensus was a fragile one, and it splintered for good during the tumultuous 1960s.
The Elvic Oracle. The New Yorker. 1950s Rock ‘n’ Roll. Rolling Stone. The Day The Music Died. Biography. The Fifties: The Way We Really Were. Douglas T. Miller and Marion Novak.
Clark McAdams Clifford (December 25, 1906 – October 10, 1998) was an American lawyer who served as an important political adviser to Democratic presidents Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Jimmy Carter. His official government positions were White House Counsel (1946–1950), Chairman of the President's Intelligence ...
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Clifford Berryman made thousands of political cartoons throughout his lifetime. In this cartoon, he dresses one of his recurring cartoon characters, “Miss Democracy,”, in stereotypical flapper’s garb to reflect the shifting national mood of the time.
