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...enmeshed in his new position as he does in everything else, he has wisely decided to keep his house in Belmont as a "home for tired academics." There he can retire with his wife, three children and the Sunday theatre section and escape at least for a day the ceaseless drumming on the door of Apthrop House...

Author: By J.anthony Lukas, | Title: Plympton Peripatetic | 9/29/1954 | See Source »

...espionage one, as distinct from the routine and continuous reconnaissance flights over the high seas or over friendly territory. Agents could be dropped by parachute and photographs or electronic recordings made in the air space above the other nation's territory. It is this silent "war," this ceaseless search for information, that must be inevitably a part of the "cold war." We have no confidence in the Soviet Government, yet we know that the Soviet Government has the capabilities of devastating destruction against the United States unless we are alert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

...Manhattan. Starting in 1907 with a sports-page cartoon about a chinless horse-race tipster named Augustus Mutt, Fisher added runty, harebrained Jeff four months later, made a merry fortune (at his peak in the '20s he earned $300,000 a year) whirling them around on a ceaseless merry-go-round of fights, skulduggeries and amiable confusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 20, 1954 | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

Fiery discontent ripped Brazil's violent politics wide open last week. After months of strikes, army and air force threats, ceaseless newspaper attacks and congressional roars for the impeachment of President Getulio Vargas, the proud old (71) Gaucho who had ruled Brazil for 18 of the past 24 years was toppled from office by the chiefs of the armed forces. Then, in a last, fateful act of Hitler-like defiance, he killed himself, leaving behind a bitter, eloquent testament heaping all blame for his failure-and Brazil's plight-on a wicked combination of his domestic ene mies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Week of Rioting | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

...press gag." Said he: "If this had come up 15 years ago, I would guess the author to be Goebbels. [For every] case where newspapers have [caused a man to be] sent to prison in a miscarriage of justice, [there are] ten where citizens won freedom through the ceaseless efforts of hard-working newspapermen.'' After hearing that, the New York lawyers substituted a watered-down proposal to "condemn as unprofessional press releases and public statements by lawyers . . . which may interfere with a fair trial ..." On getting word of this, the Atlanta Bar Association went further...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Free Press & Fair Trial | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

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