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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jumbo. "I've seen too many potentially great milers burn themselves out by running fast week after week." Now that he has taught Ron to relax his arms and shoulders, to get the most out of his quick, hen-scratching strike, Jumbo is positive that his protégé, who once ran the mile in 3:59 in California last June, can do it in 3:55 if pressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Loafing Champion | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

Humbert's would-be child bride is stolen from him by a playwright with an Aztec Red convertible. When Humbert sees Lolita again she is a post-nymphet 17, pregnant and married to a wholesome ex-G.I. But she still loves the playwright, and in a hilarious and nightmarish murder scene Humbert pumps bullet after bullet into him while the victim protests with phony British aplomb: "Ah. that hurts, sir, enough! Ah, that hurts atrociously, my dear fellow. I pray you, desist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pnin & Pan | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...first, entitled "Dedication," is a chorale; the other, "Lonely Men of Harvard," is termed by its authors a "lament-march." G. Wright Briggs Jr. '31, director of the Harvard Band, said that "Dedication" represented Bernstein in a musically elevated mood, whereas the other piece was "typically Broadway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bernstein, Lerner Collaboration Produces New Harvard Songs | 3/13/1957 | See Source »

Identification did not always proceed smoothly. Cambridge police Sgt. Frederick G. Clancy, for instance, claimed to have arrested one defendant who was actually booked by the Metropolitan District Commission police. The charges against most of those arrested were "disturbing the peace" and "participating in a riot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Court Tries 30 M.I.T. Students For Part in Recent 'Food Riots' | 3/13/1957 | See Source »

...mystery surrounding the sale of the Edward G. and Gladys Lloyd Robinson art collection for $3,250,000 (TIME, March 4), was finally cleared up. Not very silent on a peak in St. Moritz, Greek Shipping Tycoon Stavros Spyros Niarchos let it be known last week that he is the collector for whom Manhattan's M. Knoedler & Co. Inc. bought 58 paintings and a bronze from Movie Tough Guy Robinson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Big Deal | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

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