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...postfight hubbub last week, Archie was magnanimous as always. "Durelle is one of the very best I ever fought," he said. "He hurt me every time he hit me. In the first round I said to myself, 'This can't be me!', but something told me I could catch him later on. He can have a rematch any time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Triumph of the Relic | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

...Damnable Hubbub." Prestige of the Britannica grew with succeeding editions, and the editors easily enlisted the world's famous men as writers. Sir Walter Scott wrote on drama. Harvard President Edward Everett, the first American contributor, wrote a biography of Washington. Lord Rayleigh, the physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1904, was commissioned to write on "Light." He missed his deadline, but the encyclopedia was being published volume by volume in alphabetical order, and his piece was rescheduled under "Optics"-and again as "Undulating Theory of Light." It finally got in under "Wave Theory of Light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rule, Britannica | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...with the Times of London in a hard-sell campaign to hawk the encyclopedia at cut rates with time payments and advertising. A howl arose over the raucous black-type hucksterism in the grey pages of the "Thunderer." Wrote one affronted M.P. to Hooper: "You have made a damnable hubbub, sir, and an assault upon my privacy with your American tactics." But in a few years, Hooper's whooping sold 100,000 sets of the Britannica, and earned the Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rule, Britannica | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...jury). The status-of-forces agreements cover some 14,000 cases a year without bruising the U.S. sense of justice. They received dramatic confirmation last year in the case of Army Specialist Third Class William S. Girard, who killed a Japanese woman, was tried amid U.S. hue and hubbub in a Japanese court without a jury-and received the justice which was his unalienable right. In the status-of-forces agreements the U.S. thus respects the integrity of the laws of foreign countries without sacrifice to the basic principles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: The Work of Justice | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...week. The American Export Liner Independence was flying the white and yellow flag of the Vatican state, and 20-odd archbishops, monsignors, priests and politicos thronged to welcome the first American in history to be appointed to the potent Curia, headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church. But throughout the hubbub of greeting, Samuel Alphonso Cardinal Stritch, 70-year-old Archbishop of Chicago, seldom spoke and did not once offer his ring to be kissed. He was wearing it, some noticed with surprise, on his left hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Cardinal's Ordeal | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

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