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...that jazz") to modern psychological drama ("Maybe the unnatural things in life are the only safe ones to write about these days"), the Harvards gave Actress Shelley Winters, 39, a standing ovation. Shelley's reaction: "One of the proudest achievements of my life. I'll brag about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 2, 1962 | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

...woman who never finished high school but became one of America's great actresses told the audience that her lecture was "one of the proud achievements of my life. I will brag about...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Shelley Winters Discusses Theatre, Tells Anecdotes to Kirkland Crowd | 2/21/1962 | See Source »

...Britain's music-hall brag, aimed at Russia in 1878, added "jingoism'' to the English language and helped persuade the Czar to end his war against Turkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia: By Jingo | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

...exercise of the bored rich and their spoiled sons. On the rare occasions when they are jailed, they are treated like gentlemen, eventually released with sentence delayed-but revivable if they create new difficulties for the regime. Under such a mild eye, almost everyone now feels brave enough to brag quietly that he really hates Franco ("but there's no other choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: The First 25 | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

Almost unnoticed behind the ominous headlines last week, the varied slogans of the U.S. press continued to make one unimpeachable claim: nowhere else do front pages support so rich a top dressing of hyperbole. Rare is the U.S. paper that Forgoes the opportunity to nail a brag to its masthead. The Denver Post celebrates the CLIMATE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD. The Atlanta Journal COVERS DIXIE LIKE THE DEW. The Fairbanks News-Miner is AMERICA'S FARTHEST NORTH DAILY PAPER; the Miami News, THE BEST NEWSPAPER UNDER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Maxims & Moonshine | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

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