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...Fred and Diane went defiantly off to the public library. After some research there, they decided (incorrectly) that minors could be married in Minnesota without parental consent. They hit the highway. Fred thumbed a ride with a 19-year-old college boy named William Braverman, killed him in broad daylight with a service .45, buried him in a quarry, jauntily decorated the grave with a rusty antifreeze tin, and headed west with Diane in his victim's shiny, red and black 1953 Plymouth hardtop. He told the girl he felt no remorse. "It don't bother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Nice Boy | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...visiting exhibition of French drawings has shown that there is a large audience eager to appreciate the special qualities of fine drawings. The French drawings in the Fogg collection, always available in the Drawing Department and constantly used by students, are not often on exhibition because long exposure to daylight is harmful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: French Art Presented In New Exhibit at Fogg | 4/10/1953 | See Source »

...explorers from Peabody made their way over the tundra in the most "modern" of vehicles--the Weasel, an amphibious auto with tracks, ribs, and pontoons to keep it above water and to prevent it from sinking into the tundra. The group worked in continual daylight from July 1 to September 1, when the sun is constantly above the horizon...

Author: By William W. Bartley iii, | Title: Peabody Alaska Expedition Finds Village Site And 'John Q. Adams', But No Original American | 4/8/1953 | See Source »

Around the Clock. In Hyattsville, Md., 83-year-old J. A. Dobson was arrested for drunken driving after he slammed his automobile into a pole in broad daylight and bayed at a policeman: "This is my night to howl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 30, 1953 | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

...evening Telegram (circ. 24,729) have been the only dailies in town for 50 years, Publisher Cecil B. Highland, 76, rules with an iron hand. The names of local citizens who displease Highland are banned from his papers, even though some hold public office. He has fought daylight saving time, a public sewage-disposal project, and turned down ads for a community project to raise money for the widow of a local hero who had tried to save three boys from drowning. By his own peculiar rules of nonpartisanship, the Exponent is Democratic, the Telegram Republican, and during campaigns each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Iron Hand | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

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