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Jordan's use of Stahura, Eikenberry, and Harris will depend a great deal on the complexion of the game. With the Yale contest only a week away, they will see action only when necessary.Brown captain DICK BENCE (above) and Crimson tackle BOB SHAUNESSY...

Author: By Charles Steedman, | Title: Bruin Air Attack Will Exploit Slow Crimson in Today's Game | 11/17/1956 | See Source »

...wasted. Wearing a plaid smoking jacket (to keep his coat unwrinkled for the day's appearances), Nixon received the daily "tip" by his staff on the situation at the next stop: population of the town (broken down by ethnic groups), its prides and its problems, its political complexion, the situation in the congressional races, the people who should be mentioned in his speech. Said one staff report as the plane droned over Texas: "San Antonio is a popular winter resort and a haven for many elderly people who have retired there. This, perhaps, explains the Republican vote in presidential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE PRESIDENCY: The Realized Asset | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

Tomb of Asphalt. Through the night thousands of Chinese ranged the streets, looting and burning shops, factories and schools considered to have pro-Communist affiliations. Then, though it had begun as an anti-Communist eruption, the violence gradually changed complexion. The crowds began singling out foreigners. Europeans were dragged from their cars, beaten mercilessly while their cars were burned. By the morning of the second day, blood lust was running high. Along Kowloon's broad Nathan Road some rioters overturned and fired a taxi bearing Swiss Vice Consul Fritz Ernst and his wife. The escaping driver fell into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONG KONG: Trouble on the Double Tenth | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

...mornings, he has turned to drink and a mistress. His chance comes when a university museum sends him to a South American jungle to search for primitive musical instruments. He takes his mistress along. But, confronted with life in the raw, the girl loses her nerve along with her complexion. What had been overwhelming sex appeal in New York now becomes whining femininity, and a native woman named Rosario, the kind who "picked up her bundle and followed her man without question," wins the hero away with a simple mixture of sex and compliance. The mistress is sent back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To Eden & Back | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

...from Brooklyn. That made me funny from the start." He is a veteran of the $5-a-night honky-tonks, the Catskills and the nightspots of Chicago. Miami and Las Vegas. He wanted to be a clown because of an early " 'feriority complexion," which he has since worked off in simple ways: settling down in New Jersey to a quiet family life (a wife and three-month-old son), playing golf, driving hot-rods at breakneck speeds. But a practical joke is still his special maggot: he once dived into a Miami millionaire's pool wearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Take Artist | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

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