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...weeks, Ira Cain, 42-year-old military editor of Amon Carter's Fort Worth Star-Telegram, had been working to get a beat. He hoped to report the maiden flight at Fort Worth of Consolidated Vultee's big, new YB-60, the jet version of the B-36 bomber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Catching the Bird | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

...highest in Waban natives early this morning, in the traditional battle for the class's first husband, foremost in the thoughts of every maiden filly entered. Every year just before the hoop classic word leaks out that groups of maidens have put their heads together to set up a fix, in which some girls will block while one girl rolls through to victory...

Author: By Erik Amfithcatrof, Edicard J. Coughlin, Michael J. Halberstam., Cynthia M. Reich, and Malcolm D. Rivkin, S | Title: Spring Tempers Activities, Fashions | 5/1/1952 | See Source »

...farming. Young Sheen was a frail boy who never ate much and sometimes annoyed his three brothers by curling up with a book rather than help with the chores. He was christened Peter John, and called P.J. as a boy, but he preferred Fulton (his mother's maiden name), and used it until it stuck. His father was a Roman Catholic who had drifted out of the Church but came back to it, and P.J. grew up in a good Catholic home, where no evening passed without the Rosary being recited. Priests often dropped in for supper, or just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Microphone Missionary | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

...Best supporting actress and actor: Kim Hunter and Karl Maiden for their roles in A Streetcar Named Desire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Winners | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

...help him in his experiment. The 18 made the long trek south to Cape Town, so that the white men at South Africa's tercentenary exposition this week could see the pygmies in the flesh. Only men and married women went along because, as any pygmy knows, a maiden who drinks water from alien springs will become sterile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Civilization? No Thanks! | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

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