Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minority of a minority organization? The writer is not in conflict with the principle of civic reform, urban renewal, or municipal efficiency. He merely feels that some consideration for the views of city planning board technicians, parents, and the general public might be more in keeping with democratic principles.... Edmund J. Casey (Independent and Democratic Candidate for City Council...
...Britons today," cabled TIME'S London Bureau Chief Andre Laguerre, "lack much of their old self-confidence. The recent advent of a young Queen, the talk of a new Elizabethan era, the dynamic character of a new self-confident Toryism, the conquest of Everest by Edmund Hillary and of time by Four-Minute Miler Roger Bannister, are all factors which in the last few years have combined to bolster that waning confidence. Princess Margaret will start no revolution whatever she may do, but things are now so far advanced that if, in the end, she gives up Townsend...
...Trouble with Harry (Paramount) is the usual trouble with corpses: people can't let dead enough alone. A little boy (Jerry Mathers), playing in the woods, sees Harry first and runs to tell his mother (Shirley MacLaine). A retired tugboat captain and local poacher (Edmund Gwenn), who has just sent three rounds after a rabbit, finds Harry lying there with a little round blood spot on his forehead. "Oh, my!" he exclaims, for it is not hunting season. He is about to dispose of the evidence when the village spinster (Mildred Natwick) strolls by and. noticing Harry...
...SCROLLS FROM THE DEAD SEA, by Edmund Wilson (121 pp.; Oxford; $3.25), and THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS, by Millar Burrows (435 pp.; Viking; $6.50), deal with the fascinating manuscripts-Biblical texts, commentaries and Essene writings-found in a cave near the Dead Sea by two Arab boys in 1947 (TIME, Sept. 5). Wilson's book is a graceful, thorough piece of reporting. Burrows, a Yale expert, analyzes the scrolls in detail, shows at precisely what points they may fill in chinks in Biblical history...
...found out. Early last week, alerted to De Sapio's visit, six top party leaders gathered in the Los Angeles hotel suite of the state's No. 1 Democrat, Attorney General Edmund ("Pat") Brown. Problem: What to do about De Sapio? Their solution was sharp and bright as a knife: start a draft-Stevenson movement...