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15? an Hour. Wiry, thin-lipped Gene Grace first showed his competitive drive while working for pennies in his father's Goshen, N.J. general store. He saved enough to attend Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., where he was class valedictorian ('99) and captained the baseball team for two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Grace Steps Down | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

Hearing the decision, railroaders were stunned, announced grimly that they would appeal immediately. Said Pennsylvania President James M. Symes with white-lipped formality: "I am astonished.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Wreck at the Crossing | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

It was nearly 3 p.m. when the hollow-eyed, unshaven missilemen finally had the Atlas, biggest bird in the U.S.'s missile aviary, ready for launching. Men inside the blockhouse listened in tight-lipped silence to the final countdown. At zero, a finger pressed a red button in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Death of the Big Bird | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

Now, into this were-world has slouched a new sort of creature: the cave-chested, pout-lipped, black-jacketed hero of such pictures as Rock All Night ("Some have to dance . . . some have to kill!"), Reform School Girl ("Boy-hungry wildcats gone mad!"). The teen-spleen movies, following the monster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shock Around the Clock | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

Behind the Red colonel's capture lay a bizarre story-only partly exposed last week by tight-lipped Justice officials-that in spots seemed to reflect equal doses of Alec Guinness and E. Phillips Oppenheim. Aided by his invaluable surface nonentity, Rudolf Abel had been a successful spy since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: Artist in Brooklyn | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

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