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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This lackey's lackey is Brennan. With cruel precision, Kowalski gives Brennan his last assignment-on the Feast of Corpus Christi. Assignment: to kill a mysterious ex-Communist who was known during the Spanish civil war as El Carnicero (The Butcher). Brennan cannot approach confession with this last act...

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

Front-Runner Kohler, the only campaigner who had declared himself squarely behind Dwight Eisenhower and Modern Republicanism, faced some vociferous barking from the sideshows during the three-week campaign. Among the barkers: eight-term Congressman Alvin O'Konski, 53, whose campaign manager decided to sell O'Konski'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Biggest Show in Wisconsin | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

Kiss of Death. Health. Education and Welfare Secretary Marion Folsom tried to revive interest by calling a special press conference to report the President was still behind the bill. Then he went off to the White House to discover that the President was not about to issue any ringing endorsements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: School's Out | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

But what makes this unsophisticated book more interesting than most jungle jour nals is the sophisticated corporal's many-sided marital problem. By her fifth month of pregnancy, Ilouhi is obliged, under the strict tribal law, to find her husband a second wife. Rene protests the bigamy: "To carry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Polygamy for La Patrie | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

"It might be helpful," said Murrow, "if those who control television and radio would sit still for a bit and attempt to discover what it is they care about. If television and radio are to be used to entertain all of the people all of the time, then we have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Opiate of the People | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

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