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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first function of a yearbook is to come out, the second is to come out good. For two years running the Yearbook people have given tradition a healthy kick by producing their publication on time; previous annuals tended to get lost at the bindery or disappear in the mails. Now, with its publication problem beaten, the Yearbook can profitably start worrying a little more about what it publishes...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: The Bookshelf | 6/7/1951 | See Source »

...public scowls over her recent divorce and rumored romances, said Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, were making that incipient ulcer kick up again. All her troubles started, sighed the 19-year-old ex-wife of Hotel Heir Nicky Hilton, because "I have a woman's body and a child's emotions." People had tried to link her name with men, she added, "ever since I got so I could wear a plunging neckline, and that was when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 4, 1951 | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

Whatever the criticism, the "Greatest Show on Earth" still is; and only the sobersides student won't get a kick...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: The Circusgoer | 5/11/1951 | See Source »

...ostriches may spend their full 40-year adult life span together. Easily frightened, the birds, which can run at a 60 m.p.h. clip, sometimes cripple themselves dashing headlong into fences. But in the mating season a male ostrich will attack a man, can disembowel him with a single downward kick of his two-toed foot, whose claw is the size of a railroad spike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: The Feather Merchants | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

...assembled Democrats got a great kick out of that. But millions of other Americans, Republicans and Democrats alike, had their ears tuned for the roar of a Constellation bringing Douglas MacArthur home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Action on M-Day | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

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