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...They're asleep in the backfield anyway. And the quarterback was almost nailed from behind before he could get it away...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: The Prince and the Pauper | 11/19/1958 | See Source »

...Petoskey, Mich., Policeman Charles Laubrich paid a $25 fine after he fell asleep at the wheel of a patrol car and crashed into a utility pole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 3, 1958 | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...Russian interceptor force is helped in its job by what may be the world's best air-detection network. Soviet planes have not yet been able to gun down U.S. planes at high altitudes, but they have seen them on their radar-proof that they are not asleep at the oscilloscope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: RUSSIA'S MILITARY: ON THE DEFENSIVE | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

Sweating in the summer heat, the candidates whooped through receptions, rallies, teachers' meetings, radio and TV stations, livestock markets, transit garages, factory shift changes, military bases, even (for Holland) a screwworm-eradication plant. According to Pepper, Democrat Holland, 66, was a "Rip van Winkle" who "is asleep most of the time and looks backward when he is awake." According to Holland, Pepper, 57, was a "radical, Communist sympathizer, socialist-trend thinker, Red, ultraliberal." On one big campaign issue, integration, there was no issue: Spessard Holland is an avowed segregationist; Claude Pepper noisily declaimed that he, too, opposes the Supreme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: Red & Rip | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

...full score. The pace, thanks to Vincente Minnelli's direction, is Pall Mall. Comedienne Kendall cocks an eyebrow clear up into her hairline, twists her mouth into something resembling a berserk rubber band, fixes her rival with a saccharine smile that fairly oozes gore. Actor Harrison, whether falling asleep on his feet during the national anthem or grunting amorously to a sofa pillow, still reigns as king of his wacky parlor empire, but an enormously talented queen has moved in close to his side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 18, 1958 | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

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