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Ernst fell back on Dictator Trujillo's own offerings, e.g., 68 pages of Dominican stamps on Espaillat's passports, designed to prove that he was in Ciudad Trujillo when the whole thing happened. Ernst discounts, as the words of a habitual liar, Murphy's confessions to friends and his fiancée that he flew Galindez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Whitewash for Trujillo | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

...name accordingly, dropping the "u." Later he admitted that Josephine had come straight from another lover's bed, but there was sentiment of a sort. On St. Helena Napoleon confessed: "I really did love her; I had no respect for her. She was too much of a liar. But there was something taking about her. She was a true woman. She had the prettiest little tail imaginable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Hero | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...years ago, looked around for another candidate. Pastor Powell (Abyssinian Baptist Church) churned into an oratorical frenzy. Cried he: "I am being purged because obviously I am a Negro and a Negro should stay on the plantation." Powell called New Yorker De Sapio "a Mississippi boss" and "a liar," spun off insults at Republicans and Democrats alike, announced that he would run for an eighth term as an independent Democrat. ¶ Conservative Republican Frederic R. Coudert Jr., 60, whose vote-pulling power in Manhattan's East Side silk-stocking 17th Congressional District was badly snagged the last two times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Who's on First? | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...modification or improvement. No material is 'inserted' in bombs for the purpose of increasing the amount of fission products or to add to the total fallout." At that, Anderson arose wrathfully on the Senate floor, declared that Strauss "in effect four times calls me a liar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: Clint's Doctor Fell | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

...Pygmalion and The Apple Cart, and some connective matter by Mr. Kilty. Shaw's letters are as witty as his plays, and Mrs. Campbell was in every way a match for him. Their letters are full of delicate shades of feeling and redolent of two strikingly original personalities. Dear Liar may not be really a play, but it is certainly a pleasure...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Dear Liar | 5/14/1958 | See Source »

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