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...again and again on the treads. Parker pleaded in vain: "I'll walk if you all don't drag me!" Blood trailed the figures as they stumbled onward, and a bloody handprint was slapped on the doorstep. The other prisoners ran to the window, saw the men fling their victim into a car, watched as the car and four or five other autos drove off. Parker's terror-choked voice was drowned by the chatter of youngsters leaving a dance down the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSISSIPPI: Lynch Law | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

Beth Jacobs intends to keep trying, but she admits the job is hard. "Even unwed mothers," she sighs, "left to face their ordeal alone, would rather have had their fling and pay the price than be good spinsters with no love life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAMAICA *: Love v. Marriage | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...hundred side streets one night last week, solitary Italian males popped discreetly into familiar shuttered houses for one final fling. Outside, plainclothes cops prowled, ready to squelch any farewell parties that showed signs of getting out of hand. Surrendering its distinction as the last West European nation to boast legalized brothels, Italy finally closed down its "houses of tolerance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Lost Distinction | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...rightfully wonder what television's got to do with it. I'll tell you. It's the last hope. The TV western--from Wyatt Earp to Mike Paladin--is Custer's Last Stand for the American Male. It is one last fling at virility by a vanishing breed...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: The Case Against Woman | 7/31/1958 | See Source »

...says, "isn't me. She started out that way, but she wasn't moving around. When I asked myself, 'What wouldn't I have done?' and made her do that, she finally got on her feet." Her intention as a writer: "To -fling myself into youth, to say this is how it was, these are my buddies." Currently, Author Dundy's buddies are those of Kenneth Tynan, witty young drama critic of the London Observer and Angry Young Man, who has been her husband since 1951. Tynan contributed the title and some advice: "Take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tender Is the Fulbright | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

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