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...same day's newspaper was the story of two Negro teen-agers who walked into a Manhattan elementary school, forced a teacher to empty her purse at knife point, and fled while her fourth-grade class screamed in terror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Knights v. Crowns | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

Again in disgrace, he was sent back to Cairo and moped around headquarters. His depression was deepened by Atabrine taken to combat malaria. One gloomy afternoon in his hotel room he stabbed himself twice in the throat with a hunting knife. His life was saved by a British colonel next door, who said afterward: "When I hear a feller lock a door, I don't think anything about it, and if I hear a feller fall down, that's his affair, but when I hear a feller lock his door and then fall down-it's time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lion of Burma | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...forth with Nietzsche, Mill, and Santayana in Emerson F. The Nietzschean spirit seems to haunt the the rest of the building at this hour. For the up-and-coming Raskolnikov Dr. Wheeler in Soc. Rel. 184 (Emerson A) carefully examines where such greats as Willy Sutton and Mack the Knife slipped up. As insurance, "cops and robbers" finishes up with a study on the ins and outs of prisons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Classgoer | 9/29/1959 | See Source »

...fratricidal murders that are still drenching the Algerian soil with blood continue, unless they be the work of a group of ambitious agitators determined to establish by brute force and terror their totalitarian dictatorship? The future of Algeria rests with the Algerians, not as thrust upon them by knife and machine gun, but according to the will which they will express legitimately through universal suffrage. With them, and for them, France will see to it that their choice is free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: DE GAULLE SPEAKS TO ALGERIA: | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...dressed up in a circle pin, a pearl necklace, an orchid and an ageless smile, Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses handled a silver knife with the art that comes from practice. She was cutting birthday cake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 21, 1959 | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

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