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...loathes his wife and lives openly with a slave girl, and a lewd, liquored-up daughter-in-law (Brooke Hayward) who, from having been her "brother's whore," becomes a Mandingo youth's relentless seducer. Among the play's activities are brutal floggings, slaves who maul and kill one another while their masters bet on them, the daughter-in-law's horsewhipping her pregnant rival to death, and the planter's murdering first his son and then the boy's Mandingo mistress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays on Broadway | 6/2/1961 | See Source »

...social effects in Russia and the U.S. University officials have promised complete freedom of study, and the Americans have been warmly accepted socially. In one friendly bull session, a U.S. economist had even tried to convince a horrified Soviet wrestling champ that Americans do not really hold maul-and-maim contests in which the object is to kill one's opponent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Americans at Moscow U. | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

Published and distributed by the CRIMSON, the paper's five-column headline declared, "PRINCETON FOOTBALL STARS MAUL 16-YEAR-OLD YOUTH." By noon, 4,000 copies of the parody had been distributed to the crowd which awaited the Yale-Princeton football game...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: CRIME Parodies Stump P-Y Crowd | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...discovered that it could act violently without suffering at the hands of the cops. From that moment on, the result was inevitable. The mob grew from 300 to 500 to 900; it had tasted blood and liked it. It churned madly around and, in the absence of Negroes to maul, turned on Northern newsmen, beating three LIFE staffers. At noon Little Rock's Mayor Woodrow Wilson Mann ordered the Negro children withdrawn from the school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Quick, Hard & Decisive | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

...Joslin's kicking again produced most of the Crimson's score, as his two penalty kicks and conversion registered eight points. Terry Turner scored the game's only try, when he crossed from several yards out after a loose maul just in front of the Tiger line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Rugby Team Tops Princeton, 11-0, Ends Losing Streak | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

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