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...best man at the wedding. Over the years, in gratitude for such devotion, Thornhill showered his butler with gifts of clothes and money, even of a nine-room house completely furnished. Out of sight of the squire, Patience lived like something of a lord himself. When the daily grind of grape-pitting at the manor was over, Patience would slip away, clad in the best, and whisk off 50 miles to London in his master's Jaguar to flash ?5 notes in the eyes of a bevy of girl friends. By the time his master married, Patience himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Impatience of Patience | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

...vaccine, under the heading "Medicine" [May 16], would have been more appropriate under "National Affairs," "Business" or "Theater"-for obvious reasons. Should not the whole tragic circumstance point a moral-that medical problems be handled by the medical profession and not by pressure groups, large organizations with axes to grind, or politicians who are always willing to "rush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 13, 1955 | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

...Boop. Along the line two gloves and a skirt fly off; then, as suddenly sultry as the sirocco, Lola wheels to flaunt the angular arabesques of Theda Bara, flicks a shapely backside at her prey, slides out of a pair of lace panties, and departs northward to bump and grind in the old-fashioned tradition of burlesque. Pleased and bewildered, Ballplayer Joe sits happily helpless through it all, and in the end goes back to his wife, just as he intended from the beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Devil's Disciple | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

...little time to wonder. With the Russian occupation and its puppet regime come confiscation of church lands, curbs on church schools, threats and ultimatums: "Tell me, Father, which do you choose, the past or the future?" Father Janos chooses the eternal: "The mills of God grind smaller than those of the Communists, and one day they will pulverize them." When the official mills of the Communists grind out a law disbanding religious orders, Father Janos bids his fellow Jesuits go underground, or abroad, and himself becomes a modern catacomb Christian. But the secret police soon snap him up and jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hammer, Sickle & Cross | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

...varsity's record in the 2,000-meter sprints is not necessarily indicative of its chances in the four-mile grind at New London, for upsets have dotted the 104-year history of the event...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Heavy Crews Prepare at Red Top For Race Against Elis on June 17 | 6/3/1955 | See Source »

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