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...dignity and the candor of the man for whom no one else can possibly speak. His big difference is with one of his warmest friends: Eisenhower-"a very great human being." Monty insists that after the breakthrough in Normandy he could have won the war with a smashing left hook to the Ruhr. Ike preferred a long front along which the enemy would be smashed at all points. It is this difference and Monty's argument for his point of view that make his Memoirs historically important. Certainly no one can now quarrel with his insistence that the British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Monty Remembers | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

Bassey made the big effort to flatten his Brooklyn opponent in the seventh when he staggered him with a left hook. Despite heavy punishment, Costa rallied enough to win the round on one of the official cards...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Kid Bassey Gets Nod Over Costa | 11/1/1958 | See Source »

Frozen Beef. In Sacramento, Calif., Loretta Weyant was granted a divorce on her testimony that after an argument, her husband had hung her from a meat hook in her restaurant's cold-storage room for two hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 13, 1958 | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

...undertaker was beside himself ("This is criminal!"), and his caller finally let him off the hook by switching to his natural voice: "Hi there. This is Jonathan Winters. Only kidding." Exploded the undertaker: "You were an idiot even in high school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: If You're Not Sick . . . | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

...Arcadia ship has occasionally sailed on stormy seas. On "Flagpole Day" (last May 16) a few students raised a German swastika over the campus. Three air force sergeants, two city electricians, and a hook and ladder crew were required to get it down...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: Lehigh: Mountain Monolith Of 'Cultured' Engineering | 10/11/1958 | See Source »

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