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...Central Junior High (64% Negro), teachers patrol the lavatories during class breaks to prevent gang attacks, often frisk the pupils for switchblades and razors. Favorite weapon: a beer-can opener with honed edges. One boy at Central Junior was transferred to another school, his teacher reported, "because the extortion racket and fear were just about to produce a nervous breakdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Kansas City Trouble | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

...bears, in fact, a sharp resemblance to the airbrush Aphrodite known in the '30s as the Petty Girl. And like the Petty Girl, the Monroe is for the millions a figure of fantasy rather than of flesh. She offers the tease without the squeeze, attraction without satisfaction, frisk without risk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: To Aristophanes & Back | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...like their owners. But as soon as a writer gets a good assignment, the problem al ways straightens itself out." Walls & Cabanas. In Hollywood, even a well-adjusted dog can eventually go to pot. Sometimes a movie star may be away for weeks on location, leaving his dog to frisk around the swimming pool or a 20-room mansion. But loneliness finally catches up with him. and he is apt to be found merely staring at So walls all day long. Sometimes the master sends his pet to the Double E, a dude ranch for dogs, which features a swimming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: An Actor's Best Friend | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

Night after night, Webb sat in the back seat of the police Chevrolet, listening to the radio's unemotional reports of crime and human weakness, watching every move of the two detectives. After hours, he asked for coaching. How did they frisk a suspect? How did they kick in a door? Once he told Wynn: "Talk like a cop." The detective bristled. "We don't talk any different than you do." "Well," said Webb, "what would you do if you had a suspect?" Said Wynn: "Why, I'd go down to R & I [Records and Identification...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jack, Be Nimble! | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

...quite mammals. Their blood is warm and they have mammal-like fur, but they lay soft, reptile-type eggs about ¾ in. long. From the eggs hatch blind, hairless little "larvae" that nurse by licking milk from their mother's mammary pores. Only after several months do they frisk out of their burrow as furry platykittens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Penelope's Secret | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

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