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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...waves began to subside, and the men lay face down. Fleming felt ice in his eyes, on his back, in his hair. The three exchanged nonsensical gibberish. Then Mays prayed. But Strzelecki slipped from the raft, clinging weakly to the side. The others, too spent to pull him aboard, held him for more than an hour. Strzelecki sobbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: The Death of the Bradley | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...good Britons. Writer McMinnies' characters spend a good deal of time brooding over breeding. Her characters are as itchily class conscious as if they knew they wore shirts made of the wrong kind of hair and were too proud to scratch. The trouble begins when beautiful Milly Purdoe starts the hanky-panky with the diplomatic bag and makes a baggage of herself with her husband's friends. Unfortunately, the natives are better at this sort of thing, and Milly only proves that Britons never should be Slavs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Silly Milly in Slavonia | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...girl sat in a bulky sweater at a great oval mahogany table, around which sat the other members of English HTb. Her nose was severe, her mouth very small, her hair straight and plain. She read in an incisive monotone...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: Writing Courses at Harvard | 11/26/1958 | See Source »

Slap blop. "...And then..."Gouge gouge. "...Lincoln underwent the most extreme change in years..." Squeeze slap slap. "...He parted his hair on the other side..." Sloop...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: The Last Bridge | 11/25/1958 | See Source »

...party where there are beautiful girls with 40-inch bosoms, Cartier diamonds and long blonde hair,' and attractive men will ignore them and pay attention to me. They want to go out with me because men want intelligent girls whom they can beat down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: The Best of What? | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

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