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Shelton, Ike,
429-30
Shepley, James,
408-9
Sher, Jack,
198-99
Sher, Marilyn,
198-99
Sherman, Forest,
83-84
Short, Dewey,
115
Silber, Don,
488
sitcoms,
198
,
507-14
Sitton, Claude,
680
$64,000 Challenge, The
,
646
,
647
$64,000 Question, The
,
644-47
60 Minutes
,
730
Sixty Years of Best Sellers
(Hackett),
60
Skardon, William,
42
,
45
,
46
Skin of Our Teeth, The
(Wilder),
266
Sloan, Alfred P.,
118
,
120
,
121-23
,
126
,
129
,
130
,
489
,
634
Smathers, George,
56
Smith, Charles B. “Brad,”
71
,
72
,
73
,
74
Smith, Dana,
237
Smith, Earl T.,
715
,
719
,
723
Smith, Herbert,
29
,
32
Smith, Herman “Dutch,”
220
Smith, Lamar,
430
Smith, Loren,
72-73
Smith, Merriman,
624
Smith, Paul,
316
,
317
Smith, Walter Bedell “Beetle,”
360-61
,
364
,
367
,
371
,
372
,
373
,
374
,
375
,
378
Smith, Wayne,
715
,
719
,
720
,
723-24
,
725
Snow, C. P.,
35
Snow, Hank,
471
“Some Enchanted Evening,”
475
Somoza, Anastasio,
376
,
378
Southern, Terry,
60
,
61
Soviet Union,
9
,
15
,
18
,
33
,
35
,
36
,
38
,
39
,
41
,
42
,
43
,
45
,
53
,
57
,
84
,
113
,
215
,
216
,
312
,
363
,
365
,
370
,
371
,
407
,
408
,
527
,
531
,
608
,
615-16
,
620
,
622
,
701
,
704
,
706
,
710
atomic bomb of,
24
,
25-28
Cuba and,
724
H-bomb and,
47
,
99-100
Korean War and,
65
,
66
,
83
missile gap and,
698-99
missile program of,
613-15
postwar era and,
26-27
Sputnik
launched by,
623-26
U-2 incident and,
704-11
Yalta conference and,
17
Spillane, Mickey,
59-61
,
579
sports,
691-97
Sputnik
,
353
,
623-25
,
678
,
698
,
699
,
704
Sputnik II
,
626
Stage Show
,
476
Stalin, Joseph,
16-17
,
24
,
33
,
56
,
63
,
65
,
66
,
69
,
205
,
215
,
217
,
330
,
527
,
531
,
608
,
613
,
614
,
700
,
701
Stassen, Harold,
7
,
208
,
211
State Department, U. S.,
10
,
15
,
21
,
49-50
,
57
,
58
,
65
,
359
,
372
,
374
,
378
,
379
,
384
,
388
,
620
,
714
,
715
,
716
,
722
State of the Union
,
653
Stehling, Kurt,
626
Stein, Bob,
595
Steinbeck, John,
482
,
664
Steinem, Gloria,
322-23
Stempel, Herb,
648-51
,
655-60
,
661
,
662
Stennis, John,
403
Stephens, Tom,
242
Stevenson, Adlai E.,
15
,
225
,
231
,
236
,
237
,
326-27
,
356
,
664
,
705
background and career of,
219-23
Eisenhower contrasted with,
234-35
on McCarthyism,
233-34
1952 election and,
219-23
,
232-45
television disliked by,
232-33
Stevenson, John,
197
Stewart, Homer,
622
Stewart, Potter,
417
Stilwell, Joseph,
68
,
82
Stimson, Harry,
24
,
28
Stone, Abraham,
598-99
Stone, Harlan Fiske,
410
Stone, Joe,
647
,
663
Stop the Music!
,
183
Stout, Rex,
654
Strasberg, Lee,
265
Strategic Air Command (SAC),
353-54
,
356-57
,
615
,
616
Stratemeyer, George,
105
Strauss, Lewis,
38-40
,
46
,
91
,
332-34
,
341-44
,
347-50
,
351
,
352
,
353
Streetcar Named Desire, A
(Williams),
254-57
,
261
,
262
,
266
,
270
,
272-73
,
479
Strider, Clarence,
437
,
438-39
,
440
,
452
,
453-54
Strider, Jesse,
454
Stripling, Robert,
13
Strong, Philip,
616
Studio One
,
496
,
497
Sullivan, Ed,
184
,
473-75
,
477-78
,
517
Sullivan, Walter,
623
Sullivan, William C.,
338
,
339
,
340
Sulzberger, Arthur Hays,
383
,
386-87
,
707
Sulzberger, Cyrus,
209
,
386-87
,
685
,
700
,
702
Summerfield, Arthur,
239
,
241
,
488
Summer Sentinel
,
452
Supreme Court, U. S.,
15
,
332
,
410-23
,
426
,
543
,
561
,
667-69
,
677
,
692
Plessy
decision of,
414-15
,
419
Truman’s appointments to,
411-12
Warren’s appointment to,
418
see also Brown
v.
Board of Education
Swados, Harvey,
528
Swango, Curtis,
437
,
438
Swayze, John Cameron,
675
,
676
,
678
Swillenberg, Joe,
148
,
150
Symington, Stuart,
703
,
704
Szulc, Tad,
717
,
724
Taft, Alphonso,
206
,
214
Taft, Horace,
206
,
207
,
208
Taft, Martha Bowers,
6
,
8
,
206
Taft, Robert A.,
5
,
8
,
10
,
312-13
,
314
,
389
,
395
,
396
,
415
background and personality of,
205-7
Fortune
’s description of,
207-8
isolationism and,
207
McCarthyism and,
55
,
57-59
,
252
1952 election and,
204-5
,
208
,
209
,
211-12
,
218
,
222
politics of,
207-8
Truman on,
205
Taft, William Howard,
392
Take It Or Leave It
,
642
Talese, Gay,
568
Task Force Smith,
72-73
Taylor, Laurette,
258
,
261
technology,
495-96
computers and,
92
,
93-97
,
445
mechanical cotton picker and,
445-48
music industry and,
470-71
teenagers and,
472-73
Ted Bates Agency,
225
,
227
,
228
,
501
teenagers,
472-73
television,
212
,
215
,
628
,
629
advertising and,
see
advertising
Benny’s analysis of,
202
Berle and,
185-87
Checkers speech and,
239-41
,
242
Eisenhower’s image and,
224-25
,
229-31
family sitcoms on,
198
,
507-14
I Love Lucy
and,
196-99
journalism and,
201
Kefauver hearings and,
188-94
King and,
689-91
Little Rock integration crisis and,
677-81
movies and,
185
1952 election and,
224-32
Nixon-Kennedy debates and,
728-32
political advertising on,
224-32
politics and,
195
,
201-2
quiz shows on,
642-50
,
664
radio overtaken by,
180-87
sports and,
691
Sullivan and,
473-74
tobacco industry and,
502-4
Television Fraud
(Anderson),
645
Teller, Edward,
29-30
,
40
,
47
,
94
,
95
,
343
,
624
background personality of,
87-89
egocentrism of,
97-98
H-bomb and,
34-37
,
43-44
,
46
,
91
Oppenheimer’s relationship with,
36
,
37
,
39
,
89
,
90
,
99
Oppenheimer testimony of,
348-53

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