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The search for social justice infused all of Frances Perkins's eighty-three years. In her youth she rebelled against the grim orthodoxy of social Darwinism, becoming first a social worker at Jane Addams's Hull House and later one of New York's leading advocates of social and labor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Madame Perkins | 5/17/1965 | See Source »

NAFBRAT dismisses both The Addams Family and The Munsters not for their ghoulishness but for "suggestive humor and double-meaning dialogue." Peyton Place, says NAFBRAT, is "an obvious exploitation of the sordid and tasteless elements of the Grace Metalious novel, a monument to the network's search for ratings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Watch Out for Children | 2/5/1965 | See Source »

...ADDAMS FAMILY (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Halloween with the Addamses is suitably ghoulish when Morticia and Gomez welcome bank robbers to their cobweb-hung manse as trick-or-treaters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 30, 1964 | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

*The others: Theodore Roosevelt, 1906; Elihu Root, 1912; Woodrow Wilson, 1919; Charles G. Dawes, 1925; Frank B. Kellogg (Calvin Coolidge's Secretary of State), 1929; Nicholas Murray Butler and Jane Addams, 1931; Cordell Hull, 1945; Evangelist John R. Mott and Pacifist Emily G. Balch, 1946; Dr. Ralph Bunche, 1950...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Awards: The Youngest Ever | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

The Addams Family are successful incarnations of the necrogeists in Charles Addams' cartoons. Their house is a great Victorian cobweb with a bear rug that growls when stepped on, a stuffed sailfish that has the legs of a child protruding from its mouth, and a mailbox with a hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The New Season | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

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