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...weeks earlier, on Dec. 21, North and Boyden were killed instantly near Goshen, Ind., when the car in which they were riding collided unavoidably with two trucks on the brow of a New York Central overpass. John Fell Stevenson '58, of Leverett House and Libertyville, III., driver of the car, suffered severe face cuts and a broken right kneecap. Doctors said yesterday at Chicago's Passavant Hospital, where Stevenson is confined in a wheelchair, that his progress was "fine." His return to Cambridge is as yet indefinite...

Author: By Gavin R. W. scott, | Title: Seven Undergraduates Die Over Christmas Holidays | 1/5/1956 | See Source »

...friend, was grilled for an hour at the border by agitated Communist officials demanding to know where she had hidden her camera and negatives to take such pictures. "As soon as I got back into Hong Kong," she said later, "I wiped the sweat off my brow, looked back at the Communist flag and spat. I'll never go back into that world again unless that flag is torn down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Come to the Fair | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

Whining Paranoiac. For its vast middle-brow audience, TV served up a go-minute helping of Herman Wouk's Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, with most of the same cast that has carried the show to big-money grosses on Broadway and on tour across the nation. Lloyd Nolan re-created his memorable Captain Queeg, depicting the collapse of a personality, in one shattering crossexamination, from a man-to-man blaster to a whining paranoiac. Captain Queeg's character is complex yet dramatically clear, but most of the other characters in Caine Mutiny must operate as intellectual phobias...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: The Week in Review | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

Wherever he went Talbot tried to find out how the threatened animals live and how they can be protected. In some cases he thinks he aroused local sympathy In one case he found that native beliefs are working in the animals' favor. The Burmese brow-antlered deer was recently on the verge of extinction, but now it is left strictly alone. The natives think that eating its flesh will aggravate venereal diseases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fossils of the Future | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

...arrived monster-monger, fit replacement for August Derleth, eldritch statesman of the well-informed witchlover. Author Bradbury may owe even more to John Collier, another veteran djinn-and-bitters addict. Like Mary Wollstonecraft (Frankenstein) Shelley and Bram (Dracula) Stoker, these writers appeal to the middle or relatively uncorrugated brow, rather than the highbrow, who finds more than enough to bite his nails over in the Age of Anxiety without faking up a little more. The highbrow, in fact, whose modern poetic world has been defined by Poet Marianne Moore as "imaginary gardens with real toads," does not scare easily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Djinn & Bitters | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

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