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Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: March 2nd, 1953 | Vol. LXI, No. 9 | U.S. image: https://gcp-na-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- Back to the vault # March 2, 1953 | Vol. LXI No. 9March 2, 1953 | Vol. LXI No. 9  Issue name March 2nd, 1953 | Vol. LXI, No. 9 | U.S. Issue date March 2, 1953 Location U.S. Related categories [Science](/vault/subject/science/) [Energy](/vault/subject/energy/) [Business](/vault/subject/business/) [Electronics](/vault/subject/electronics/) [Industry](/vault/subject/industry/) [Browse issue pages](/vault/issue/1953-03-02/page/1/)[Buy This Cover](https://www.timecoverstore.com/) ## Table of Contents Others [THE NATION: A Straight Shot](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822623,00.html)[THE PRESIDENCY: Lunch for Two](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822624,00.html)[National Affairs: The First Month](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822625,00.html)[FOREIGN RELATIONS: Back to Madrid](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822626,00.html)[National Affairs: Pinpoints](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822627,00.html)[ARMED FORCES: Double Indemnity](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822628,00.html)[National Affairs: Man Behind the Gun](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822629,00.html)[National Affairs: A Matter of Life & Death](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822630,00.html)[BEHIND THE SCENES: Liquidation Sale?](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822631,00.html)[TRIALS: Life for a Traitor](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822632,00.html)[INVESTIGATIONS: Tales of the V.O.A.](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822633,00.html)[REPUBLICANS: New Moneyman](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822634,00.html)[DEMOCRATS: A Golden Rule](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822635,00.html)[MANNERS & MORALS: Preview for the Prophet](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822636,00.html)[National Affairs: Americana](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822637,00.html)[IDAHO: Out, Damned Slot](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822638,00.html)[THE ALLIES: Clearing the Decks](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822639,00.html)[WAR IN KOREA: Hwam for Won](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822640,00.html)[WESTERN EUROPE: The Paper Cutters](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822641,00.html)[BERLIN: Promise Renewed](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822642,00.html)[COMMUNISTS: New Crime, Old Origin](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822643,00.html)[HUNGARY: The Purge](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822644,00.html)[AUSTRIA: Democracy Wins](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822645,00.html)[RUSSIA: Switch](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822646,00.html)[DENMARK: Mutiny](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822647,00.html)[GERMANY: Flight by Night](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822648,00.html)[SWEDEN: The Other Side of the Wall](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822649,00.html)[FRANCE: Thirteen Go Free](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822650,00.html)[International: The Burden of Poverty](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822651,00.html)[POLAND: Literary Briefs](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822652,00.html)[THE MIDDLE EAST: Bloody Frontier](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822653,00.html)[PAKISTAN: The Cruel Begum](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822654,00.html)[GREAT BRITAIN: Battle of Bedlam](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822655,00.html)[CHINA: Big Budget](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822656,00.html)[INDO-CHINA: Protected Village](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822657,00.html)[CANADA: Tax Rollback](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822658,00.html)[BRAZIL: To the Rescue](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822659,00.html)[ARGENTINA: Comeback's End](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822660,00.html)[The Hemisphere: In Search of Something](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822661,00.html)[VENEZUELA: The Lucky Laundress](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822662,00.html)[COLOMBIA: Dominguin Retires](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822663,00.html)[MEXICO: Private Citizen](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822664,00.html)[Science: Jobs for Elements](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822682,00.html)[Science: Diggers](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822683,00.html)[Science: The Flowering Desert](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822684,00.html)[Medicine: Crime in California](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822671,00.html)[Medicine: What's the Name?](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822672,00.html)[Medicine: Quick Quacks](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822673,00.html)[Medicine: Capsules, Mar. 2, 1953](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822674,00.html)[The Press: Ike's First](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822692,00.html)[The Press: Truman's Memoirs](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822693,00.html)[The Press: Chip & Block](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822694,00.html)[The Press: Rights or Duties](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822695,00.html)[Religion: The Bold, Bad Bishop](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822678,00.html)[Religion: Christians in the Dark](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822679,00.html)[Religion: Are Catholics Different?](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822680,00.html)[Religion: Excommunication](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822681,00.html)[Sport: Sporting Venture](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822675,00.html)[Sport: Out for the Record](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822676,00.html)[Sport: Scoreboard, Mar. 2, 1953](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822677,00.html)[STATE OF BUSINESS: Cut in Margins](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822700,00.html)[CORPORATIONS: Atomic-Power Men](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822701,00.html)[SHOW BUSINESS: Divorce Granted](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822702,00.html)[RETAIL TRADE: Connecticut Invasion](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822703,00.html)[GOVERNMENT: Defeat for United Shoe](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822704,00.html)[AVIATION: Missile Maker's Progress](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822705,00.html)[Education: The Sluggers](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822666,00.html)[Education: The Monkeys](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822667,00.html)[Education: Report Card](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822668,00.html)[Music: Popular Pachyderm](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822669,00.html)[Music: The Jazz Business](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822670,00.html)[Art: Man with a Hammer](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822685,00.html)[Art: WATER & LIGHT](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822686,00.html)[Art: American Collector](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822687,00.html)[Radio: Lucy's $8,000,000](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822688,00.html)[Radio: Recognition Value](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822689,00.html)[Radio: Grass-Roots Grand Opera](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822690,00.html)[RADIO: Program Preview, Mar. 2, 1953](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822691,00.html)[The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Mar. 2, 1953](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822696,00.html)[The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, Mar. 2, 1953](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822697,00.html)[Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Mar. 2, 1953](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822699,00.html)[Cinema: Flash in the Pan?](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822706,00.html)[Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 2, 1953](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822707,00.html)[Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Mar. 2, 1953](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822708,00.html)[Books: Good Man from the South](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822709,00.html)[Books: Hamlet in a Greatcoat](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822710,00.html)[Books: Self-Conscious Ghosts](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822711,00.html)[Books: Spiritualist Statesman](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822712,00.html)[Books: RECENT & READABLE, Mar. 2, 1953](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822713,00.html)[Miscellany, Mar. 2, 1953](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822714,00.html)[Milestones, Mar. 2, 1953](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822698,00.html)[People, Mar. 2, 1953](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822665,00.html)[A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 2, 1953](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822622,00.html)[Letters, Mar. 2, 1953](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822621,00.html) March 2nd, 1953 | Vol. LXI, No. 9 | U.S. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":210,"height":60},"foundingDate":"March 3, 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