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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Craig's foes have been vocal about a number of his appointments-both Legion and-non-Legion men. A constant target has been Doxie Moore, 43, a Legionnaire and onetime professional basketball player, coach and supervisor of officials for the National Basketball Association, who is now Craig's loyal, hardhitting administrative assistant. Critics have hung a label on Moore: "Double-Dribble Doxie." As if to accommodate them, Doxie at times double-dribbles. A fortnight ago, without consulting Craig, he sent out a flurry of telegrams, over the governor's name, taking the wrong side on the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Warfare on the Wabash | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

...authority on Romance languages, Provost Edwin Williams of the University of Pennsylvania is in a good position to know that "language changes so rapidly, there's no end to keeping up with it." English and Spanish, for instance, are in a constant race: with a score of different nations adding to one, and the U.S. and British Commonwealth adding to the other, it is no wonder that dictionaries in the bilingual field fall way behind. Last week, with the publication of his own Spanish-English dictionary (Holt; $7.50-$8.50), Williams brought things up to date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Last Word | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

...besides being irrelevant, is largely unfunny. But on the whole, Cadillac's material stays admirably cohesive. The authors may be using a shotgun instead of a rifle, but their target is the large one of sustained humor rather than the pin-point of specific ridicule. And the laughs are constant all evening...

Author: By S. R. Barnett, | Title: The Solid Gold Cadillac | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

...details of his work are sometimes foggy, his overall purpose is clear: to help man live at peace with his unconscious. That is the aim also of the other "depth psychologists," but Jung significantly differs from the others. He is a constant challenge to the legacy of his old master, Sigmund Freud, whose teachings have affected man's view of himself more deeply than anything since Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Old Wise Man | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

...most amazing. It does not take long to realize that the propaganda about West Berlin's courage and democracy is based on truth--and that about the great communist spirit of he East is not. West Berliners have become virtually a nationality in themselves. the long isolation and constant tension, the presence of an enlightened city government and the protection and education of the Western Allies have made them different from both East and other West Germans...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin, | Title: Berlin: An Abnormal Island Floating Above A Red Sea | 2/8/1955 | See Source »

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