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Under the compassionate probing of a social worker, the Sampleses spilled out their troubles. Vincent admitted drinking to excess. Geraldine agreed that she had nagged him incessantly. The couple still had faint hopes for their marriage, and willingly signed a lengthy reconciliation contract. One of the court's three staff workers went to work with the Sampleses as a counselor. Last week, 18 months after their reconciliation, Mr. and Mrs. Samples were in the chambers of Judge Louis H. Burke to thank him for saving their marriage. Vincent had reformed, is now a steady worker, a family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: Burke's Conciliation | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

...shift generated more dismay than enthusiasm. Labor jeered; even the sturdiest Tory supporters could manage only faint praise, and more often blurted doubts. The Conservative Daily Telegraph could see no evidence of "either wisdom or necessity." Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express deplored the removal of Butler from the Treasury at a critical time and his replacement by Macmillan-"an untried quantity as economic arbiter." Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail concluded gloomily: "We can only hope that the new team imparts to the government a drive and decision now lacking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Disappointing Change | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

...same bull-throated voice, Al Ochsner demanded of the class: "Why did he pop out?" At which point several other students would have been glad of a merciful faint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bull of the Bullpen | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

Polaris would not hurry for Dr. Moore; so the confirmation of his theory had to wait. Dr. Roemer, by carefully comparing a long series of spectrograms, proved that Polaris is circling once in 30½ years around a dim and probably close companion whose faint light is wholly blotted out by the glare of the supergiant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: North Star & Co. | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

Boise, Idaho (pop. 50,000), the state capital, is usually thought of as a boisterous, rollicking he-man's town, and home of the rugged Westerner. In the downtown saloons of the city a faint echo of Boise's ripsnorting frontier days can still be heard, but its quiet residential areas and 70 churches give the city an appearance of immaculate respectability. Recently, Boiseans were shocked to learn that their city had sheltered a widespread homosexual underworld that involved some of Boise's most prominent men and had preyed on hundreds of teen-age boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Idaho Underworld | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

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