Quotes About 1952

In 1952, when I was 15 and living on Governors Island, which was then First Army Headquarters, I encountered the newly-published 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Of course, that book became the iconic anti-establishment novel for my generation.

We are all dead. All equal. Broken and aimless and believing we are alive. This is Russia and it is 1952. What else would you call hell?

Nixon's adroit use of television in 1952 was well ahead of its time.

I didn't decide I was crazy until 1952. That's when I began making a steady salary and could afford to be crazy.

The very word "bank" caused heartburn among the Saudis, who associated it with the collection of interest. For that reason, when the king accepted Young's draft charter and created the central bank by royal decree in 1952, the institution was called the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, or SAMA, the name it still bears.

Clara, however, loved San Francisco, and in 1952 she convinced her husband to move back there.

The average Harvard freshman in 1952 would have placed in the bottom 10 percent of the incoming class by 1960.

Such, social historians of the future please note, were the housing conditions of Markshire in the year of grace 1952.

In December of 1952, my first wife, Kirby, and I left Vienna to drive through the Russian sector of Austria into Yugoslavia.

My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.

As both lemons and pearl barley were now obtainable (1952), this refreshing drink formed part of one invalid menu....

Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore's program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.

Early one seasonably cold morning, the first day of November, in the year of our lord 1952...the Cuyahoga River caught fire. The river burned. It wasn't so much the river, but a huge oil slick *on* the river, though distinguishing one from the other was more a job for a chemist than a lay observer.