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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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After having Mr. Truman all over your Aug. 13 cover, I hope you will soon have our President on the cover. This great country knows a great man at a glance−and it isn't Mr. Truman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 27, 1956 | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...Norbert H. G. Mai, 35, a West Berlin political commentator, criticized network Drodigality: "The most amazing thing about American TV is the variety. It seems like a waste of money though, because there simply isn't the audience for it all day long." Mai called for more live programming, fewer kinescopes and films. On public-service shows: "Always they seemed to be the responsibility of the men with lesser talent, and usually they had no visual appeal at all." Commercials? "Horrible." But Mai developed "an American attitude" toward them, i.e., "I would go out and get a bottle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Fresh Look | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...them over long distances," says Coach Tinkham, "so I go about it just the opposite. At Walter Reed [the U.S. Army Hospital in Washington] we swim sprints all the time. That way every swimmer gets her second wind every practice. Of course it's harder work, but it isn't as boring, and it keeps their minds more alert. I guess they hit three or four good peaks a year and then hold them for a week or so. With all the time between now and Melbourne, it'll be no problem to get them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Melbourne Bound | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

Problem Drinker. In San Francisco, after a doctor got her tongue unstuck from a pop bottle, nine-year-old Kathleen Owens asked for the bottle, explained: "It isn't empty and I'm still thirsty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 13, 1956 | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

...fuss. All right, I had a baby before I was married. It's not the first time that ever happened to a woman, and it's not the last . . . And if the two people love one another and marry, and if they have a happy family, isn't that what counts?" The week's bulletins on honeymooning Playwright Arthur Miller and Cinemac tress Marilyn Monroe: ¶ In Washington, the House, by a lop sided roll-call vote of 373 to 9, cited left-leaning Miller for contempt of Con gress for his refusal to unclam about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 6, 1956 | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

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