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...record entitled him to talk "in the same fashion. Interior Minister W. S. Kent Hughes, 56, fought in Gallipoli and Palestine in World War I, was a Rhodes scholar and an Olympic hurdler between wars, and in World War II fought in Malaya as a staff officer of the 8th division. Captured at the same time as Downer, he also spent 3½ years in Japanese prison camps. Said Kent Hughes in a dramatic and emotional speech: "Only those who have passed along the purgatorial path of ill-treatment, murder, lashings, and every brutality you can think of ... who have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: The Futility of Hatred | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...CRIMSON prides itself upon watertight argument in its editorial columns. Yet arguments used against the traditional freshman Smoker in February 8th's paper are untenable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No DABBLERS THEY | 2/20/1952 | See Source »

...strange film even by the standards of Japan (where it drew only enough business to meet its cost of $140,000), Rashomon opens in a ruined 8th century temple, where a woodcutter and a Buddhist priest, taking shelter from a lashing rain, ponder a bewildering crime that has shaken their faith in men. As they recount the crime to a cynical passerby, flashbacks picture the testimony at the trial and four differing re-enactments of the violent incident itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 7, 1952 | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

...required) by the 20th amendment to the Constitution. Senate Majority Leader Ernest McFarland observed that Jan. 3 was Thursday, a wasteful day, and suggested that the date be pushed forward to the following Monday, Jan. 7. House Speaker Sam Rayburn gently suggested another push to Tuesday, the 8th. His reason: the Monday meeting would require him to travel on Jan. 6, his 70th birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Setting the Date | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

...Aaron Wilson K.O.'s Elkins Brothers in 8th and final round of the semi-final...

Author: By Winthrop Knowlton, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 9/21/1951 | See Source »

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