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...elaborate series of manipulations involving key page numbers, word counts and "root numbers," Donnelly finally "deciphered" such statements as "Seas ill (Cecil) said that More low (Marlowe) or Shak'st spurre (Shakespeare) never writ a word of them," convinced himself that Bacon had written the plays to conceal "the inner history of his times, in cipher." But no sooner had Donnelly published his theory than another scholar used his methods to produce the message: "Master Will I Am Shak'st spurre writ the play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Scrambled Ciphers & Bacon | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

Never one to conceal her charms behind the veils of maidenly Moslem modesty, pretty Princess Aisha, 26, the French-educated eldest daughter of King Mohammed V of Morocco, is an ardent champion of women's rights in Islam, an area where a lot of pioneering remains to be done on the subject. Last week she carried her fight to Damascus, and proved herself as delectable an agitator as ever made an Arab forget John Foster Dulles. Syria, which had other things to worry about, feted her all week, put her up in a palace, provided her with a Cadillac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISLAM: Shapely Agitator | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

Could it be that Cozzens, like so many of us, has feelings of insecurity and self-doubt that he attempts to conceal by his profession of superiority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 16, 1957 | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

...universal custom for women to conceal their ages, but to deny two husbands and two kids-that takes the cake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 19, 1957 | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

...Most of our daily life is directed not at what we do, but at what we want to conceal. But on the stage behavior has to be expressed intentionally, not concealed. This is the basis of the difference between drama and real life. And it is why true stories always make the worst plays, and why dialogue is the magic that will tell whether people are talking in life or on the stage...

Author: By Anna C. Hunt, | Title: Johnston Considers Position of Dramatist | 8/14/1957 | See Source »

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