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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reading "The Wouk Mutiny" [Sept. 5] was like feeling a cool breeze when the temperature hits 98°. Hurrah! Decency has a champion in modern literature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 3, 1955 | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...took World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano nine rough rounds of wild and frantic slugging at New York's Yankee Stadium to dispose of his ancient (38) and honorable challenger, Light Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Oct. 3, 1955 | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...Taking his time at the start. King Ranch's hefty brown colt High Gun splashed from behind in mud and fog to win the Sysonby Handicap, so-called "Race of Champions," at Belmont Park. Second by a mud-splattered head: Main Chance Farm's Jet Action. Third: Belair Stud's three-year-old champion, Nashua, running for the first time against older horses. At Atlantic City, Irish-bred Blue Choir, a four-year-old colt, ridden by leading U.S. Jockey Willie Hartack. won the third running of the $104,600 United Nations Handicap. Second: Fox-Catcher Farms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Oct. 3, 1955 | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

Trial (MGM) turns out to be as tellingly effective an anti-Communist movie as Hollywood has ever made. In a few painfully real scenes, iced with satire, Director Mark (Champion) Robson and Writer Don Mankiewicz have drawn an unsettling picture of just how U.S. Communists adopt and then ambush a "good cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 3, 1955 | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

Married. Barbara Ann Scott, 27, Canada's pert, blonde 1948 Olympic figure-skating champion, star of the Hollywood Ice Revue (1952-55); and Tommy King, 31, press agent for Chicago Stadium Sports Enterprises; she for the first time, he for the second; in Toronto, Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 26, 1955 | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

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