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After reading Senator Walter Givhan's speech in TIME, Dec. 20, I am mystified as to how such a man can drop his guard so low and then invite the world to retaliate. Senator Givhan's statements against the Negroes can and should be taken as an insult to the virtue of the white women of the South . . . When are the gallant Southern gentlemen going to learn that the color of the skin is no criteria of the purity of the heart? Isn't it about time that this misguided section of the country quit dragging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 17, 1955 | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

...love her for her wide-eyed, wispy self alone. In one of the most relentlessly publicized custody fights of all time, little Gloria's mother, the gadabout "big Gloria" Morgan Vanderbilt, and her aunt, the redoubtable, socialite art lover, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, traded haymakers of innuendo and insult across the courtroom while character witnesses culled from the bluebooks of two continents spoke up for one claimant or the other. Gloria herself sat through the trial sipping endless glasses of water and watching in bewilderment the storm that blew about her head. "All during that trial," she said later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Sic Transit Gloria | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

...judge that he had lost his composure when his mother-in-law remarked: "I don't intend to let my daughter sleep alone with a man," insisted that she share the couple's bed or that he sleep alone on the wedding night, added to the insult by placing the bride's younger sister in the marital bed on the second night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 13, 1954 | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

...clever masters. Supreme Guide Hodeiby protested violently: "I stayed against my will and tried to resign, but the Brotherhood refused." At first, Terrorist Chief Youssef Talaat stood up to Salem and cried: "Please, you're going to kill me, but don't try to insult me." But soon Talaat too was saying: "I was nothing but an errand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Snapping the Trap | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

...ensuing hubbub, a Republican named Sirri Atalay got up to say that during Turkey's war of liberation against Greece (1922), Menderes had been seen strolling "arm in arm" with a Greek officer. This is the ultimate insult in Turkey: two avenging Democrats leaped up to the rostrum and dragged Atalay down. The fighting continued in the corridors, so the presiding officer hastily recessed the Assembly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Republicans v. Democrats | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

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