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...Purge: tough, ruthless Kadar fell into Rakosi's dragnet during the anti-Tito campaign, resisted intense torture, including the fingernail treatment, applied by Police Chiefs Gabor Peter and Vladimir Farkas (both now in jail). Secretly tried, he was moved from prison to prison because of his reputation as an escape artist. Released during the post-Stalin "liberalization" period, he got a minor job in one of Budapest's 22 party districts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: TWO COMMUNIST FACES | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

Sunny Side Up. In Hackensack, N.J., Mrs. Harriett Paula Bisagni got a divorce after testifying that her husband forced her to eat her breakfast on the kitchen floor which he made her scrub with a fingernail brush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 30, 1956 | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

...final" farewell tour of the U.S., Spain's youthful (64) Gypsy Vicente Escudero, grandest master of the flamenco, made an unlikely bivouac in Manhattan's staid Hotel Plaza, paused between stomping and fingernail-castanetting to reminisce about his roving life and good times. One of diminutive (5 ft. 6 in., 125 Ibs.) Dancer Escudero's closest barroom buddies was the late, bibulous portrayer of Montmartre, Maurice Utrillo. Was Utrillo ever sober? Snorted Escudero: "Ah, poor Maurice! When not in his cups he would fall down, so he sought to avoid sobriety at all costs!" Is Escudero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 16, 1956 | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

...Natural History ($140) and New York's Wenner-Gren Foundation ($250). With the help of two hired laborers, they found buckets of flint chips, tools and animal bones. Then Lea Wymer found something odd in the same deep stratum: a bit of black stuff the size of her fingernail which looked like rock but felt much lighter. A few days later she and Bertram and John all found more. They took the collection to Dr. Kenneth Oakley of the British Museum of Natural History, who is the leading authority on Swanscombe man. Last week Dr. Oakley announced that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The First Fire? | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

...race. Slowly they pecked away at the lead. They scored one run in the third, another in the fifth, two in the seventh. Casey began to worry about those lost chances. He juggled his line-up like a man possessed. Now Martin was out with a torn fingernail; Berra was gone with an upset stomach, and Charley Silvera was back of the plate. Starting the ninth, the Yanks were only two thin runs in front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Comedy of Errors | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

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