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"One is not born, but rather becomes a woman . . . It is civilization . . . that produces this creature, intermediate between male and eunuch . . ." From childhood she is "fated . . . to be the passive prey of man," to awake in him "an unknown being whom he recognizes with pride as himself." What man dreads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lady with a Lance | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

When Ann Davison and .her husband Frank set out from England to sail around the world in 1949, their high adventure ended in sudden tragedy. A howling English Channel gale sent their old, 70-ft. ketch Reliance crashing on to the rocks off Portland Bill, and Davison was drowned. Ann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Long Voyage Home | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

This week, on the eve of Oscar post time, the moviemakers were busily grooming their hottest entries and preparing to trot them out. Along Beverly Hills's Wilshire Boulevard and in several art theaters in the year's last week, marquees will blaze with a flurry of top...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Post Time | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

Except for the one-man club in Singapore, all the other Harvard clubs soon followed suit. Alumni pointed out that an alumnus (Francis Pickernell '14) had selected the ill-fated prize song, which had been written by a Yale man.

Author: By David C. D. rogers, | Title: Glee Club First to Try Classical Music | 11/19/1952 | See Source »

Asia presents two crucial problems; what should the United States do to at least neutralize, if not win over, countries that have already gone Communist, and how should it prevent now friendly or wavering nations from succumbing to Russo-Chinese blandishments? There is no separating these problems, and any policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Asia | 10/30/1952 | See Source »

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