The U.N. General Assembly established the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in 1949 as a temporary agency focused on relief work for the Palestinians. It began operating in 1950. Hundreds of ...
Scene I: Theatre-by-the-Sea, on the rebound after the difficult war years, opens the 1950s with a 1929 comedy about a speakeasy — “Strictly Dishonorable,” a title eerily similar to its very first ...