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...began popping up & down in his seat. "You people have been tormenting me!" he shouted to his passengers. "Now I'm going to torment you!" He stepped down on the gas pedal, ran past a red light at Broadway and 43rd Street, piled into a taxicab and a crush of other cars. In all, nine were injured (seven hospitalized), and nine vehicles damaged. Driver Bragg was unhurt, and the police let him go home. That night Bragg took sick, and three days later he died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Wayward Bus Driver | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

Most of the girls seem to have romantic complications. Daughter Anne (Jeanne Grain) almost misses the marital boat by being assistant mother to her younger brothers and sisters. Ernestine (Barbara Bates) has a crush on a college sheik. Budding Belle Martha (Debra Paget) charms an Amherst man when she blossoms out in a bathing suit. Even Widow Gilbreth temporarily titillates Tycoon Edward Arnold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Picture? | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

Undefeated in three straight matches, the squad beat Wesleyan 5 1/2 to 1 1/2 at the Edgewood Golf Club in Cromwell, Conn. Continuing his string of fine performances third man Bill Timpson was Medalist, firing a 74 to crush Jim Stiles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golfers Top Wesleyan; To Oppose Elis Today | 5/3/1952 | See Source »

Golf action at the Dedham Country Club saw Dunster pick up its third victory of the day over Adams by a 5 to 0 score. Other House matches saw Eliot beat Leverett, 5 to 0; Kirkland top Winthrop, 4 to 1; and Dudley crush Lowell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dunster Baseball, Softball, Golf Teams Win, Tennis Squad Loses | 5/2/1952 | See Source »

...Even if a picture eloquently argues a distasteful point, such as the glory of the Klan, it neither coerces moviegoers nor deprives them of any of their rights. The broader and narrower views of tolerance clash only when professional groups and public officials attempt unjustifiably to use one to crush the other, as the NAACP, the Equal Rights Society, and City Censor Milliken are doing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Death of a Movie | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

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