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...toilets as wash basins. At a hospital, Liu found the comrade "nurses" ripping the labels off the medicines and reclassifying the bottles according to four sizes and five colors. As for such high-reform," sounding most old government comrades projects as treated them "agrarian as rackets. When a mock trial with agitator witnesses led to a landlord's being beaten to death or shot, the party members div vied the land and farm implements among his neighbors, but picked up any gold or silver, clothing or household goods for themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Behind Mao's Lines | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

...After almost two years of continuous fighting he had just got his first ten-day furlough ticket so that he could go back to his village to marry a childhood sweetheart. Charlie Company had sent the hat round and collected $250 for Joe, and issued him a mock-formal order: "Have a good time." A Katusa (Korean attached to U.S. troops) and thereby not eligible for rotation, he had been up to the Yalu and back again with the Wolfhounds, fighting, said one G.I., "with the guts of a wild Indian." He had volunteered for every patrol Charlie Company ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Volunteer | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

Nevertheless it had happened, and, to everyone's surprise, the town's 4,000 schoolkids didn't like it at all. Instead of taking a holiday, they held mock funerals for their district, lowered the high-school flag to half-mast, smeared red paint over the house of one of the leading abolitionists. Meanwhile Superintendent Dale Douglas ("I'm a chief without Indians!") began appealing to the county superintendent for help, and was told that the county could only take over small communities with 125 students or less At week's end the citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: We Just Went to Sleep | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

This is the second time that Frankfurter has appeared at the mock trials. The former Harvard Law professor made his last appearance in 1946. He is the fifth Supreme Court Justice to hold this post in recent years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ames Finals Set To Go on April 1 | 1/17/1953 | See Source »

...dramatic texts and displayed an appropriate variety of moods while maintaining a stylistic unity with in the pair. Mr. Feder's settings showed a greater simplicity, more of a desire to render the texts than to interpret them. Yet his songs were to from colorless, I especially enjoyed the mock heroic piano recite after the Found liner. "And I would rather have my sweet... Than de high deeds in Run gray...

Author: By Alex Gelley, | Title: Composers' Night | 12/19/1952 | See Source »

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