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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miss Vanderbilt is descended...through a long line of titled cuckolds and shameless pimps, and now stands on the ragged edge of poverty, bartering to parvenus for bread an empty dukedom bought with a female relative's dishonor." Brann scoffed at James Whitcomb Riley, "the poetical ass with the three-story name," railed at a clergyman-critic as a "monstrous bag of fetid wind," adding: "The man who can find intellectual food in [his] sermons could acquire a case of delirium tremens by drinking the froth out of a pop bottle." The son of a Presbyterian minister, he rang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Iconoclast | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...ioiA twin-jet McDonnell Voodoo to full throttle and full afterburner, broke the world's official aerial speed record. Previous record, flown in March 1956 by a British Fairey Delta: ,132 m.p.h. Drew's official time, an average of one pass into the wind and one ass with it: 1,207.6 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Vhoosh | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

...wouldn't listen and so he was arrested again." Sinclair fought John D. Rockefeller Jr. by picketing his Wall Street offices in crape. He bugled for milk, vegetarianism, Prohibition. Sacco and Vanzetti. Yet even a New York Socialist leader said: "Sinclair is an ass." And he never really wrote very well. After a rejected manuscript, according to one anecdote, Mary said sadly: "Why can't you seem to use the right words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uppie's Goddess | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

That "white sidewall" haircut episode was the stupidest piece of bureaucratic nonsense I ever heard of. The Sepoy mutiny in India (1857-59) started because some silly ass in the British army ordered the Mohammedan native troops (who could not eat pigs) to bite off the end of a cartridge which had been waterproofed with pig fat. This mutiny cost the lives of thousands of troops on both sides. I'm not suggesting that we are starting a second Sepoy mutiny, but I'd like to point out that a lot of trained technicians are not re-enlisting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 12, 1957 | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

William B. Pennell: Leverett (Claverly Senior House); Band, Ass't mgr.; Stud. Council Comm. on Religion; House Glee Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1957 Permanent Class Committee Candidates | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

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