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...soon clear that the scheme was a blunder that made almost everyone quite unhappy. If any Forest Hill pupils had not previously been aware of a distinction between Jew and gentile, they were certainly aware of it now. Said one gentile student: "The adults stirred up the fuss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Unhappy Experiment | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...does serious harm to the play is not its tenuous gaiety but its interminable romance. This not only makes for labored playwriting, but is never really in the true Lonsdale manner. Never was such real insouciance elbowed by such phony scruples; and never, for that matter, was so much fuss made over a mere $10 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 6, 1950 | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

...become defiant, suspicious, more independent, restless, vivacious and extroverted. They join street gangs (56%), while their counterparts almost never do (0.6%). They spend a lot of their time on waterfronts, in pool rooms and dance halls. While two-thirds of the non-delinquents accept the idea of school without fuss, only 11% of the delinquents do-nearly half want to stop as soon as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Blueprint of Danger | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

...governor could not quite see what the fuss was about. He was "no longer intrigued by the sight of an undressed woman," he said somewhat irrelevantly, and furthermore a magazine called Finlandia Pictorial, then & there on his desk, showed all sorts of public nude statues in Finland. "We all know," said he, "that the Finns are a moral people." But Tom Mabry, a Democrat, was up for reelection, and arranged to hear both sides: the artists, and three churchmen, led by the head of the local Ministerial Alliance, a Protestant group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW MEXICO: A Matter of Principle | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

...next morning the Reds got scared when U.S. mortar fire started dropping near their position. "They made us take off our boots, and they tied our wrists with the shoestring," said Roy. "A couple of guys raised a fuss. I think they beat 'em to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Massacre at Hill 303 | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

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