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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many years the properly outraged janitor swept his walks and practiced moral restraint whenever possible. But finally he threw in the towel. "I kept my peace long enough, but people got to do something. It's just too much. I mean this is a quiet neighborhood, respectable and all. You can't let a thing like this go on. Disrupts things. Starts fights. Really, last year they had a lot of trouble about this. Guys stand around on porches and stare. Wives get mad. Kids start to wonder. It's not good. Ain't healthy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Stitch in Time | 10/7/1959 | See Source »

...every Tom and Harry passing by can get his fill. They ought to do something about it. Maybe the people who run the place are the ones. How can a guy respect colleges when stuff like this goes on? It's no treat for me, you know. I mean it's a joke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Stitch in Time | 10/7/1959 | See Source »

...decided not to apply for a loan under title II, even though our failure to apply would mean a financial handicap to a certain number of students. We believe that the handicap to the whole student group, through invading our justified trust of them would be a great less. Katherine E. McBride, President...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Statements From Other Schools on Loyalty Oath | 10/6/1959 | See Source »

Senator Harrison A. Williams' two day visit to the University, which begins tonight may mean more than meets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Williams to Open Visit With Talk | 10/6/1959 | See Source »

...years ago, but he still outpaces them all. Novelist Budd Schulberg himself trimmed his book down to a two-part, two-hour television show, and to judge from the first installment (the second is due Sunday, NBC, 8 p.m., E.D.T.), TV cannot dim the rage of Sammy's mean-spirited race from Manhattan's Lower East Side to Hollywood's highest echelons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Still Running | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

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