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After a harrowing week in Parliament, where he was rapped for "knock-kneed'' leadership, Britain's Labor Party Boss Hugh Gaitskell (see FOREIGN NEWS) proved that he can also be bandy-legged.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 15, 1957 | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

Memphis State had just squeaked by, beating Utah 77-75, Manhattan 85-73, and. in overtime, St. Bonaventure 80-78. The startling news that its college (student body: 4,000) had come out of obscurity to the final of one of basketball's major tourneys set Memphis to cheering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Basketball Champions | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

Clad in high-collared vests and baggy cotton trousers, the three barefoot Indian musicians sat down cross-legged on an Oriental carpet on the stage of Judson Memorial Hall at Manhattan's Washington Square. Glancing at the drummer to the right of him, Ravi Shankar cradled his sitar in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sitar Player | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

Most of the time bald, myopic, barrel-chested, spindly-legged Pnin wrestles mirthfully with his fate even though he loses most of the falls. Bound for a lecture date, he blithely takes the wrong train after having painstakingly consulted an out-of-date timetable. Bent on being a sports-minded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pnin & Pan | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

To the layman the answer seems as self-evident as which way is up. To those who have tried to design one the solution is more complicated. Says Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: "A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Architects' Furniture | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

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