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...second, he had fallen behind Representative Glenn R. Davis, 41, a toothpaste-smile isolationist, who had been sweet-talked into running and promised a $150,000 campaign fund. When the third ballot started, Wiley did not even wait for the result. With tears in his eyes, he and his British-born wife made their way quietly through the crowd and out the door. For Alex Wiley, it was a bitter pill -administered on his 72nd birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Backfire in Wisconsin | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

Accountant Robert John Edwin Mc-Kerrow's undeniable skill with figures had brought him some doubtful rewards, among them a number of convictions for forgery and embezzlement. But a good talent is hard to suppress, and when British-born McKerrow was sentenced to 4½ years in Kampala's Luzira Prison for juggling an employer's books to the tune of $14,000, he was promptly assigned to take care of the prison accounts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: The Accountant | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...novelist bent on discrediting a popular idea may choose to 1) give the reader an intellectual hotfoot, i.e., singe his brain with a better idea, 2) tickle his funnybone with satire, 3) clout him over the head with the blunt instrument of anger. British-born Novelist Geoffrey Wagner belongs to the blunt-instrument school. His mallet of malice falls on psychiatry and especially psychoanalysis, its high priests, practices and pretensions. With scarcely a smidgen of saving humor, but with much righteous wrath, The Dispossessed argues that Freud, Jung, Adler, et al. are bloodletters of the psyche whose theories will eventually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mallet of Malice | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

Married. Aldous Leonard Huxley, 61, British-born short-story writer, essayist and novelist (Point Counter Point, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan); and Laura Archera, 40, Italian concert violinist; he for the second time; in Yuma, Arizona's Drive-In Wedding Chapel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 2, 1956 | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

Died. Robert Newton, 50, top-ranking British-born screen actor (Treasure Island, The Beachcomber) and TV player (Long John Silver); of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 2, 1956 | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

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