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...teaching took five years; then abruptly he switched from precept to fiat. He gave civil servants three months to master the new script-or find new jobs. He had not been to Istanbul since 1919; now he returned in style and with a purpose. He sailed into the Golden Horn on the Sultan's yacht, triumphantly marched past cheering crowds. He summoned Istanbul's elite to the Sultan's palace to a ball, and stood before them in full evening dress on a raised platform, chalk in hand, before a blackboard. For two hours he explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkey: The land a dictator turned into a democracy | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

...might as well do so at home. Instead of having their boys hanging around the local pool hall, they installed a pool table of their own. On Sunday evenings the family gathered for a weekly concert, with mother at the piano, the boys playing the clarinet, flute and French horn, and father McElroy singing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SELLING: The Cleanup Man | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

...goofed!! . . . Give credit to Pete's horn. It's the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 17, 1953 | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

...debated the bill, 10,000 Orthodox Jews from the Mea Shearim and from all over Israel converged on Shaarei Hessed Square in the biggest anti-government demonstration in Israel's troubled history. Red-eyed from weeping, they swayed and wailed, prayed, and blew upon the ram's horn, a signal of national distress. Despite their prayers, the conscription bill passed the first Knesset reading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Church v. State | 8/3/1953 | See Source »

...Live a Little. Wilson, as Viertel introduces him, is an extreme type of the Hemingway generation. Liquor all day, women all night, and then off to Kenya to get straight with God by horn-wrestling a buffalo. In Wilson's case, it's off to the Congo to shoot a few elephants before making a movie in the middle of the jungle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hollywood Safari | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

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