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...endure anywhere from five minutes to an hour of stupefying drama about racketeers and handsome reporters that is worth watching only because each reporter is able to say. "This time you've gone too far, Rocco," without removing the faint smile from his lips. Eventually, press and prey fetch up at a speakeasy, always in time to catch Dorothy's number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Faces: The Girl in the Red Swing | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

...furthering Warden Jones's reform program. Back at Fort Smith, Ark., he told Jones, he owned a fine stud horse whose services he would gladly contribute to Parchman's animal farm. With written permission from Governor Barnett, Jones sent Morris, along with two guards, off to fetch the horse. The guards and the horse came back. Morris didn't, and not until last week was he captured in a Tulsa, Okla., bar, a loaded pistol tucked in his belt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mississippi: The Reformer | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

...time, considering he stopped to fetch a flower for King Oberon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 28, 1961 | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

...throbbing of a finger brings thoughts of gangrene, death, the need of carrying more insurance, whether one's widower will simply mourn for years in silence, or whether he will remarry (Tammy Grimes? But can she cook?). The whole thing will be light, deft, charming, and fetch $3,000 from virtually any magazine, not to mention an eventual movie sale. Almost any intern, life insurance salesman, housewife and child over five will readily recognize the style of Jean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: BROADWAY | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

Kashamura lost control of his own rampaging troops a fortnight ago. So Gizenga sent out Hatchetman Christopher Gbenye from Stanleyville to fetch Kashamura home. But Kashamura's cops met Gbenye at the city limits, sent him fleeing to the local U.N. troops for sanctuary. Then Kashamura began to fear Gizenga assassins under his bed-and also asked U.N. protection. When he finally ventured out of hiding, he was still nervous. Startled by a commotion in the hall outside his fourth-floor office in Bukavu's Riviera Hotel, he leaped for the window; friends had to restrain him from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congo: What It's Like | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

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