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...Britain approved the White-Morgenthau plan. When the agreements were being initialed, F.D.R. suggested that Churchill initial the German one first and then an economic agreement that would lead to an additional loan to Great Britain. Asked Churchill: "What do you want me to do? Get on my hind legs and beg like Fala...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: One Man's Greed | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

...conviction, namely, that every and any conviction is always subject to change without notice. As pure intellectual exercise, this hypothetical school of political science is entirely defensible. For the sake of pure political hypothesis, it makes little difference whether man is a creature of God or the hind end of a happenstance. But for the sake of American freedom in its life or death struggle with Communism, it makes all the difference in the world. For it so happens that the foundational, supporting concepts of the structure of American freedom are very deeply and dogmatically laid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Great Allergy | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

...Isle of Man Manx Cat Association sees no better solution than the traditional method used for generations in the Manx cat business. It urges farmers in the Isle of Man to get a genuine rumpy torn (long hind legs and a dimple where his tail should be) and give him the run of a farmyard stocked with a dozen ordinary female cats. Some of his produce will be ordinary cats; some will be sad little stumpies, but others will be rumples, worth ten guineas ($29.40) when shipped to Manx cat lovers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rumples & Stumpies | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

Rittenburg won the high jump with a leap of six feet two, his best outdoor performance this season. He placed be hind the Eli's Dick Goss in the board jump by one and 5-8 inches. Goss cleared 22 feet 7 inches. Bob Mello also cleared 22 feet, but took third...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Runners' Lose To Yale But '56 Triumphs | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

...Tigers were clocked in 9:16.2 to the Crimson's 9:18.2. M.I.T. was four lengths behind in 9:36.6. All times were much better than last week, as the crows took advantage of the strong 12 mile wind be hind them...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Princeton Varsity Defeats Heavies, Excursion Boat Cancels Yard Upset | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

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