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Dates: during 1950-1959
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For the bill's lobbyists, passage climaxed an uphill fight. Some 30 years ago, U.S. humane societies were aghast to discover that a steer being led to slaughter was first stunned by a hammer blow-often ineffectively-then slashed across the throat and allowed to bleed to death. Hogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Killing with Kindness | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

Item: as superintendent of the Naval Academy at Annapolis from 1947-50-he was the youngest in 50 years-he was shocked to discover Academy-based enlisted men living near by in trailer camps. A midshipman's first lesson must be concern for enlisted men's welfare, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Restrained Power | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

Amid the usual postvictory fuss (Miss Colombia has only been kissed once, said her mother, and that was a chaste peck for a publicity still with "that actor"(Hugh O'Brian, TV's Wyatt Earp), those who had tentatively picked blondes tracked back to discover where things had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Fire v. Ice | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

Their affair seems to offer each of them a chance of recapturing the hopes of youth. Anthony accepts his own degradation but romantically believes that Christiane has been able to carry her innocence through the mire of the years. Yet nothing has changed. He is still the petulant adolescent and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Upper Depths | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

There is a tale making the slow rounds about the Art of Henry James. James, it goes, constructed a great Gothic Cathedral of his craft. Beneath the arches and between the pews our heels clatter and our voices echo. But upon arriving at the altar (so says the story) we...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: The Cambridge Scene | 7/31/1958 | See Source »

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