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Block & Tackle. Around the gracious, red brick campus, the football area is known tersely as "Vaught's Valley." Into the valley each afternoon strides Coach Vaught, his square shoulders bulging a red sweatshirt out of shape, to teach a brand of football that is as tough as he looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Coach Johnny Reb | 11/28/1960 | See Source »

Quest or Quarry? The White Stone is a sequel to Coccioli's Heaven and Earth (TIME, July 28, 1952), in which Don Ardito grew in power as a preacher while losing his capacity to love his fellow humans. That novel ended with an act of expiation in which the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hero as Saint | 11/28/1960 | See Source »

Visually, this production was most pleasant. Andrew DeShong's two sets seemed useful for a director, providing adequate entrances and varied playing areas. To the eye they were charming. The ruins of a chapel for the second act came, with no detail changed, from the imagination of some great Romantic...

Author: By James A. Sharaf, | Title: The Pirates of Penzance | 11/18/1960 | See Source »

Whatever anyone may think of him, one fact about Roy Thomson stands beyond dispute: he owns 76 newspapers in six countries, more than anyone else in the world. Only 21 years out of the Canadian North country, he invaded London last year. Fleet Street, which has seen many a more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: I Like the Business | 11/14/1960 | See Source »

Society "must pursue the basic primary reasons for youthful violence," Judge Culkin maintained. But how does the execution of two teenage boys provide society with any insight into the basic primary reasons for their crime? Judge Culkin, it seems, hardly comprehends the reason behind the murder. His argument seems to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It Tolls for Thee | 10/22/1960 | See Source »

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