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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public works built and yet manages to keep his budgets balanced. Thriving Atlanta, thickly infiltrated with migrants from the North, is still a Jim Crow city, but is on the whole ashamed of the violent racial prejudice that is the stock in trade of such wool-hat-minded Georgia politicos as Herman Talmadge and Governor Marvin Griffin. The powerful editorial voice of the Atlanta Constitution (circ. 192,520) does not hesitate to speak up for Negro rights, and it found no difficulty in backing Mayor Hartsfield for reelection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: Oasis of Tolerance | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

Generally when a college baseball team plays a game rumor has it that the little man behind the screen in the brown felt hat is a professional scout, but in Wal-tham yesterday afternoon it was different. Yesterday the man in the brown felt hat was John Ringling North and he was looking for someone to replace aging Emmett Kelly, the King of Clowns. It is inconceivable that he went home with his little black book empty...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: Baseball Varsity Routs Brandeis 20-8, With Strong 20-Hit Attack | 5/2/1957 | See Source »

...they ever catch up with the Aussies? While they ponder, the Australian Swimming Union is doing its best to aggravate the problem. The British Empire Games are a year away and the Rome Olympics are four years in the future, but this week the A.S.U. is already passing the hat among Aussie fans for $112,000 with which to recruit and train faster and flashier teams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Workers & Water Babies | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...Director Anthony Mann nd his camera tell a modest story of the Korean war with an intimate intensity .hat makes every theater seat feel like a oxhole; with Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray (TIME. April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Apr. 29, 1957 | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...years." Pupils are not, as at nearby Hotchkiss, "under oath" to abstain from smoking; Hawley's "deadly droops" (a Hotchkiss epithet) are merely forbidden this pleasure. For characters like Baxter (an outcast because he arrived from the West Coast, of all places, in a brown suit and porkpie hat) and for McGough (who suffers the crippling handicap of being the headmaster's son), there is only one thing to do at Hawley-defeat Hawley. They nearly succeed. A pipe is shot from the mouth of a bird-watching master, the dorm-to-chapel sprint record is broken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Long Way Home | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

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