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This latest disclosure will heap fuel on Republican charges of Democratic "softness" toward Commiusim. Conden, who stoutly defended his loyalty before the Atomic Energy Commission last year, will undoubtedly be put under heavy pressure to resign from Congress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-Communist Says Rep. Condon Attended 1948 Red Party Meeting | 12/4/1953 | See Source »

...strides purposely to his dresser, opens the bottom drawer and carefully extracts his one clean white butten-down oxford shirt. From the mass of wrinkled spotted clothes hanging in massive disarray in the closet, he picks a hanger on which is draped the prized gray flannel. Pawing through a heap of jumbled dusty left shoes, he picks out a pair of glistening cordovans. Finally, on his hands and knees, he crawls under the bed and disentangles a red and gray striped rep from around the bedstead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clothed Nonchalantly For Most Of Week, Student Becomes Fastidious On Weekend | 11/13/1953 | See Source »

...began, the famed Notre Dame treatment that has been likened to facing Joe Louis in the ring: a series of rocking left-and-right crunches followed by a knockout. The heavy and hard-charging Notre Dame line seemed to move as one man while Halfbacks Lattner and Joe Heap and Fullback Neil Worden supplied the power punches. Usually, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: All-America | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

...things out in a self-analytical autobiography, The Trouble With Cinderella, which he wrote on his dairy farm at Pine Plains, N.Y. In the book, he described his zooming rise from Manhattan's Lower East Side to the top of what he called the musical "dung heap," and bared his confrontation of an ageless question: Where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Native's Return | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

...almost ruined herself by spending too much time in the primrose (or aquamarine) bed of dalliance with a bunch of softies. But soon after the slapping incident, François is seen pursuing her through a forest on horseback, whipping her until she is at last dragged through a heap of "fine liquid mud" and forced to surrender, "howling her rattle of a she-wolf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: She-Wolves & Bicycles | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

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