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Golfers may wish to me themselves to the Professional Golf Association Tournament to be held July 20-24 at the Blue Hill Country Club in Canton, about ten miles out of town. A softball tournament will also be scheduled here if there is sufficient interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Rich Menu for Sports Enthusiasts | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

...Munich picture magazine Quick. Pabel applied for a visa while covering the Moscow visit of a West German soccer team. A few months later, he was surprised when it was granted, with only one restriction: no photographs of military installations. In China, he roamed for ten weeks from Canton to Manchuria, interviewing Chinese and making a photographic record of whatever he saw. During five weeks in Peking, he met ten of the 16 remaining U.S. prisoners of war who chose to stay in Red China after the Korean truce. At People's University, where they are dragging out their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWS IN PICTURES: U.S. TURNCOATS: A BOLD SHOW | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

...plan up his sleeve, which he hinted at in the debate when he talked of a new Algeria that would be "neither Moslem state nor an Arab state nor a French province." His idea is to create a highly decentralized Algerian state divided into 25 or so "cantons" on the model of Switzerland. Each would have its own local assembly and local administration. This would allow some, like those around Oran and Algiers, to have European majorities. Over the cantons would be a single legislative assembly of elected representatives from each canton. The Premier of the assembly would automatically become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: On the Swiss Model | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

...were wary of proclaiming an individuality or a prosperity that might later be used against them. They had to be urged. Said a Peking commentator: "Let a few pioneers set the example and the masses will follow." To push the new look, fashion shows were staged in Peking. Shanghai, Canton and other cities. Despite warnings against tight dresses and too much "making up," sales of brassieres and Imperial Concubine face powder (named for a famous beauty of the Tang dynasty) shot up. A government official even spoke of "the beauty of curves." A dress shop opened last week in Peking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RED CHINA: The New Look | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...Thank you for printing the story of the Jungschlaeger case [April 9]. What a shame that it took a full year to get through to the American people. BERNARDINE Y. AKKERMAN Canton, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 30, 1956 | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

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