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Word: escapee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next night the brother will escape, and the night after that. Arnie will hide in the hole he has dug. A short time after the nightly cell count has revealed the prisoner's absence, brother Palance will kidnap, at the point of a wooden pistol, a motorist on a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: House of Numbers | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

This episode from The Genius, one of the 15 short stories in Author O'Connor's new book, contains most of the ingredients that make him an accomplished reporter of the emotions: wry humor about family life, a nostalgia for childhood, an affectionately gentle treatment of the confusions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Short Stories | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

Susan Douglas's slice of life, The Visit, is certainly the most readable story in the current issue. It interestingly portrays a college girl's conflict between allegiance to her farm family and to the values of the richer city. A most amusing and dramatic incident of this is the...

Author: By Bryce E. Nelson, | Title: The Advocate | 9/25/1957 | See Source »

The Three Faces of Eve (20th Century-Fox) is based on the study, made by two University of Georgia psychiatrists, of a three-way split personality (TIME, Feb. 18). Unfortunately, the performers of such parts have about as much chance of making a score as a three-horse parlay. And...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 23, 1957 | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

Doubtless Mikoyan felt as strongly about Stalin's tyranny as anybody. "You understand," he told Author Louis (Russia Revisited) Fischer last year, "Stalin held us in his hand. Only one escape was left to us-what Ordzhonikidze did when he committed suicide. I stood before the same decision. And...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Survivor | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

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