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Stranger In the House. In Norborne, Mo., Alex Stroud, 58, returning home unexpectedly after serving a two-year jail sentence for chicken-stealing, got a rifle bullet in the shoulder from his son, who mistook him for a burglar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 24, 1951 | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

...that for them it is self-evident that human beings contain large elements of cruelty and of ignorance, themselves included. Think what they have lived through and think what they have not lived through! We in the '20s would never quite have grasped that. We mistook our good intentions of Christian civilization for irreversible achievement...

Author: By Thornton Wilder, | Title: Top Commencement Week | 9/21/1951 | See Source »

...that for them it is self-evident that human beings contain large elements of cruelty and of ignorance, themselves included. Think what they have lived through and think what they have not lived through! We in the '20s would never quite have grasped that. We mistook our good intentions of Christian civilization for irreversible achievement...

Author: By Thornton Wilder, | Title: Top Commencement Week | 9/20/1951 | See Source »

...Tupolev). Direct copy of the U.S. B29. Speed, about 400 m.p.h.; range, 4,000-5,000 miles; bombload, 10,000 Ibs.; armament, 10-20-mm. cannon in four turrets. Tupolev has also built a long-nosed version of the B29, which some observers at the Aviation Day show mistook fora...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: RUSSIA'S WARPLANES | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

...someone younger and hardier. Trouble came swiftly: a woman screamed "Naziknecht" (Nazi tool) when Van Kempen raised his arm, and the old hall became a bedlam of cap pistols, noisemakers, yelling, whistling. Another woman screamed "Shut up!" at the demonstrators. Van Kempen's impresario, sitting next to her, mistook her for a demonstrator and slapped her. "Stop it," she yelled, "you dirty Communist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Misbehavior at Amsterdam | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

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