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For all the storm he has kicked up, Wurmeling still has the all-out backing of Chancellor Adenauer. He is pressing for stiffer divorce laws, better family housing ("Marriage flowers better in one's own home"), church-run marriage classes, "guidance offices" to patch up broken marriages. "They asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Defender of the Family | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

In Honolulu, sometime Violinist Jack (Love in Bloom) Benny got together after 45 years with his old violin teacher, retired Yale Professor Hugo Kortschak, who remembered him as 14-year-old Benny Kubelsky at the Chicago Musical College. "My, how you've grown," said the professor. Benny, a grown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 3, 1953 | 8/3/1953 | See Source »

At this point, the average movie plot might send the customers home, but this one goes right on to show Rugged Individualist Cooper falling in love with a native girl (charmingly played by U.S. Actress Roberta Haynes) who bears him a child out of wedlock.* Bored with light housekeeping in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 20, 1953 | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

The confidence of the grown-up Whiz Kids (average age now: 28) stems from complete faith in the strongest left and right pitching punch in baseball: Righthander Robin Roberts, 26, and Southpaw Curt Simmons, 23. who between them won 42 games last season while losing only 15. Alternating this season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Philadelphia Story | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

As well-read moppets know, the smallest and bravest of the twelve little girls was Madeline. Ludwig Bemelmans' 1939 picture-and-verse classic told how Madeline came triumphantly through one of the most delightful appendectomies in literature. It also made his heroine's name a household word with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For the Lollipop Trade | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

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