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King Charles II believed in God, but pictured him as an easygoing fellow who would not "make a man miserable . . . for taking a little pleasure out of the way." This belief enabled Charles to 1) get a great deal of pleasure out of a multitude of mistresses, 2) swell the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bucks & Rocks | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

When General Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg, then a youthfully handsome man of 49, hurdled his seniors to become Chief of Staff of the new U.S. Air Force in April 1948, even his airmen friends agreed that "Van" was hardly the man for the job. The Air Force definition of its strategic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Man for the Job | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

Marshall enrolled at Howard. "There," he says, "for the first time, I found out my rights." The late Charles Houston, then Howard's law dean and later N.A.A.C.P.'s counsel, looked on Howard as a self-destroying force: he wanted it to turn out a battery of able...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: MAY IT PLEASE THE COURT. . . | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

"The predominant fault of the bad English encountered today is not the crude vulgarism of the untaught but the blithe irresponsibility of the taught. The language is no longer regarded as a common treasure to be hoarded and protected as far as possible. Rather, it is loot . . . to be played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Danger of Dufferism | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

The time is easygoing 1909, but even Danny senses that the going is hard for his folks. Grandfather Tom O'Flaherty is in his 70s and can hold his own only at the local booze parlor. Grandmother Mary is a termagant who keeps "givin' him hell . . . because that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Back to Chicago | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

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