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...gives Stevenson a chance to show strength in the South. The state's liberal Democratic wing, led by ex-Senator Claude Pepper, will probably back Kefauver, as it did in 1952 (when Kefauver lost to Georgia's Senator Richard Russell). Popular Governor LeRoy Collins seems to lean toward Stevenson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Primary Problems | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

...very nearly carries off the whole show. As he heaves before the camera, swishing his eyes about as lesser players might wave their arms, and wagging his paunch as though it were a prosperous province, he looks at one instant every ounce a king, and at the next as lean a villain as ever lived inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 31, 1955 | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

...annual art show and maybe taking painting lessons on the side. In the Midwest, art enthusiasm is busting out all over. Museum attendance is up (218,000 visitors to a Van Gogh show at Chicago's Art Institute), donations and bequests are steadily mounting. After many a long, lean year, art associations are proudly setting up permanent headquarters along Main Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: RENAISSANCE IN THE MIDWEST | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

...material. The end of a well-conducted education must be the emancipation of the educated subject, who has become capable of governing himself through the very activity of his teachers. The Church, therefore, could not accept taking sides with those who hold colonialism as a permanent fact, who lean both on the prestige and material advantages which the mother country draws from her colony and on the pessimistic judgment [that] colored people [are] inferior to their European masters and incapable of ever finding their own happiness in freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Judgements & Prophecies | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

...amusement from such items as his meeting last week with his three-girl fan club. Like Gobel, Carson has a cute girl singer, Jill Corey, and they spend too much time nuzzling each other. It seems that the shy-type comic cannot survive on TV without a soubrette to lean against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

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