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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such up-to-date items as Old Man Atom with a locomotive chorus ("Hir-o-shi-ma, Na-ga-sa-ki"). When little Kathy Fiscus died at the bottom of a California well in 1949, the Ballad of Kathy Fiscus was probably inevitable, like the more recent Ballad of Caryl Chessman and today's Ballad of Francis Powers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIN PAN ALLEY: The Shady Side of the Street | 8/29/1960 | See Source »

...hope that all the anti-capital-punishment people who worked so hard for Caryl Chessman won't be too tired to go to bat for Adolf Eichmann. Adolf, like every criminal, was just a creature of circumstance who was pointed irretrievably to his destiny when he was between one and six. Killing him won't bring back all those people. MURRAY UBERMAN Brooklyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 27, 1960 | 6/27/1960 | See Source »

...witnesses, two-thirds of them newsmen, filed out to report that Caryl Chessman, sentenced to die twelve years ago for kidnaping for robbery with bodily harm, had kept his ninth appointment in San Quentin's gas chamber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The Ninth Date | 5/16/1960 | See Source »

Most startling about this phenomenon is the diversity of the issues involved. Such seemingly unrelated problems as integration, disarmament, loyalty oaths, and Caryl Chessman are all finding new activist outlets, and Harvard is only one of many colleges and universities where this sort of thing has occurred. The Woolworth’s pickets have appeared not only at such perennially crusading institutions as Swarthmore, but at Brown, Vassar, Smith, Hamilton, and other schools where nothing except an occasional pantyraid has ever mobilized the entire campus...

Author: By Jonathan R. Walton | Title: Sit in and Be Counted | 4/20/1960 | See Source »

...TIME'S covers do not necessarily honor the subjects. They are based on news and significance, and at times are given to men TIME would never honor, e.g., Al Capone, Adolph Hitler, Caryl Chessman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 18, 1960 | 4/18/1960 | See Source »

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