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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...signs, but they had every reason to expect their rooms to be in a livable condition. Now livable, for the average student who passes the academic year in a rather unkempt condition, does not mean gleaming sinks, glowing floors, and shiny new paint. All that is demanded is a clean sink, a usable shower or tub, and a comparatively dust-free bedroom. This is not demanding too much. But the returning undergraduate found it all too easy to carve his initials in the layers of dust in the bedrooms while the bathrooms were at best in fair shape...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dirt | 9/26/1956 | See Source »

That was just about as direct an action as Harry Truman, who is now talking about Eisenhower racketeers, ever took to clean up the dirty dealings in his own Administration. So bad was the Truman Administration's record that the Democratic Party's 1952 nominee, Adlai Ewing Stevenson of Illinois, tacitly acknowledged, in the famous letter that Harry Truman never has forgiven, that he would clear out "the mess in Washington." The Adlai Stevenson of 1956 must have suffered a considerable lapse in memory when he opened up his Pandora's box on the corruption issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tke CORRUPTION ISSUE: A Pandora's Box | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

...were still lying around the Roman ruins with Gregory Peck in The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, with a studio elocution teacher prompting her between takes. Best innovation: Alexander Scourby's one-man chorus describing the death scene, or expounding the tragic theory: "Tragedy is restful and clean. It is firm, it is flawless, it is quiet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

Early this week, with his Kefauver assignment completed, Connery stopped in Chicago long enough to greet his wife and two small children, pick up some clean shirts and head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publisher's Letter, Sep. 17, 1956 | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

...clean-up crews struggled with the tangled wreckage, Caldarelli went before a coroner's jury. Why had he rushed over to throw the switch the wrong way? Dazedly, Caldarelli could only say: "It suddenly occurred to me that there must be something wrong with the switch. I don't know what made me think that." The jury returned a noncommittal verdict of accidental death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: A Sudden Thought | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

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