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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Criticizing the present system of legal education, Griswold asserted, "What we ought to be teaching is how to go about attacking and resolving new problems, not the specific details about a vast number of problems which happen to be current now." Students, he warned, should realize "that we are not teaching them everything about everything...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dean of Law School Urges `Less Detail' In Law Curricula | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...emotions of his audience with consummate skill, successfully using various theatrical devices to intensify the atmosphere. "The play is memory," says Tom Wingfield, who functions as narrator. "Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental, it is not realistic. In memory everything seems to happen to music."--and the music threads in and out of the action with a perfectly calibrated degree of obtrusiveness...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: The Glass Menagerie | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia, who led his country to independence within the French Community, would be the ideal mediator, but can be little more than a tool of the F.L.N., because the armed Algerians in F.L.N. camps in Tunisia happen to outnumber the entire Tunisian army. Conversely, the French Army, though it is good for little else, is admirably equipped for the intimidation and control of metropolitan France...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Pipeline to Paris | 10/20/1959 | See Source »

...fast spread of credit cards is based on one main assumption: most people are honest. Last week Joseph Robert Miraglia, 19, a $73-a-week office clerk from Manhattan's Lower East Side, showed what can happen when the assumption happens to be dead wrong. With a credit card and rubber checks cashed on the basis of credit-card identification, Miraglia told police he ran up $10,000 in hotel and travel bills and general high living in the U.S., Canada and Cuba in less than a month. Said Miraglia: "I always wanted to see the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: Fun on the Card | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

Pillow Talk (Arwin; Universal-International) offers more talk than pillows. And just in case the talk should happen to lag, as it often does, the picture also offers something beyond discussion and almost beyond belief: a romantic comedy team composed of Rock Hudson and Doris Day, the box-office champions of the 1958-59 season. The idea was obviously to present a sort of world series of sex, but what happened to the sex? When these two magnificent objects go into a clinch, aglow from the sun lamp and agleam with hair lacquer, they look less like creatures of flesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 19, 1959 | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

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