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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Does Paar consider himself bright, shrewd and calculating when he raises his guest's dress to see if she is wearing knee socks and peers down her dress to find out if she has notes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 14, 1958 | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

...Detroiters are jobless, and 40,000 of them have run out of unemployment benefits, with the low-seniority, generally unskilled Negroes getting the worst of it. The monthly relief bill runs to $740,000, triple the year-ago outlay. Unemployed workers in debt for cars, furniture and appliances usually find that stores and finance companies are willing to stretch out the payments, but even so, repossessions in the Wayne County Common Pleas Court ran to 1,061 in the first three months of 1958, 18% ahead of last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: RECESSION IN DETROIT | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

Leaving Washington for the ten-day Easter recess, many a member of Congress took with him a firm conviction that he was going to find tax-cut sentiment running strong back home. Far from it, says roving Public-Opinion Canvasser Samuel Lubell, 46, self-styled "old doorbell ringer," whose intimate knowledge of the home front has given him a record of remarkable accuracy in calling the last two presidential elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: The People v. Tax Cut | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

...discretion of said courts, all contempts of authority in any cause or hearing before the same." In 1890 the Supreme Court declared: "If it has ever been understood that proceedings . . . for contempt of court have been subject to the right of trial by jury, we have been unable to find any instance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Close Call on Contempt | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

Last week Cheryl Crane, 14, tall, brown-haired and obviously an unhappy child, came home for Easter from Ojai's Happy Valley School-only to find her mother, Actress Turner, in the midst of trying to discard her latest male doll. But in this case the doll was not too easy to throw away: he was hairily handsome Johnny Stompanato, 32, a bum-around-Hollywood whose main claim to fame was a record as a pal of six-bit Gangster Mickey Cohen. Johnny and Lana had traveled Europe together, spent two months in Mexico. But upon their return Lana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Death on the Pink Carpet | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

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