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...read with disgust Hal Roach Jr.'s assessment of American intelligence. He makes a bald statement that the average televiewer has an even lower I.Q. than the moviegoer [TIME, Oct. 29]. It seems to me that he indicts himself and his staff. I take it Mr. Roach and his kind will continue to press the national I.Q. still lower, to satisfy a sponsor's demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 19, 1951 | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

...daybreaks, almost 100 reporters clambered up the mountainsides and stood in five-inch snow, peering towards the test site at Frenchman's Flat, waiting for a blast. By last week, when the first big explosion finally came, one-third of the correspondents had given up in disgust. By week's end, all but a handful had gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: ABC v. the Reporters | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

...divergent paths. One was a teen-age girl, a refugee from child-labor gangs in Hungary's Communist coal mines. One-Yugoslav airline Chief Pilot Milivoje Arsenijevic-had left a good job and a comfortable apartment in Belgrade. Some were driven by despair, some by disillusion, some by disgust. Some merely saw a chance and grabbed it. All had a goal in common. They gave it no name, but it lay just across the border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE IRON CURTAIN: Across the Border | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

Phil Silvers plays the role to perfection, coming so close to a caricature of Milton Berle, that much of the possible humor is lost in genuine disgust for the man who can not share the spotlight with anyone...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: The Playgoer | 9/27/1951 | See Source »

Gromyko and the Czech and Polish delegations stayed away from the signing. Just before the ceremony, Gromyko held a press conference in which he repeated his familiar tune. After half an hour, newsmen began to walk out on him in disgust. Gromyko was heard to mutter: "There is nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Russian Rout | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

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