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...dispute with McCarthy: to safeguard servicemen's morale and the public's confidence in the Army. Last week Army Chief of Staff Matthew Ridgway made a conspicuous entrance to the floodlit hearing room in mid-session, and sat down right behind Witness Stevens. By this mute signal, the world learned that Stevens' fight had the professional Army behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MCCARTHY V. THE ARMY: The Men and the Issues | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

Although America's recent pact with Spain involved only bases, the Spanish seem to believe it is a license for France's bold actions. And while the State department remains quick the British interpret the silence as mute agreement with France, who is eager to turn every diplomatic twist to his advantage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rock of Ages | 2/5/1954 | See Source »

...Linguist. In Detroit, charged with begging, Fred Johnson handed notes to police explaining that he was a deaf mute, but when the judge irritably asked him if he could talk, he proudly replied: "I can speak English, Spanish, German and a little French," got 60 days in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 11, 1954 | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

...windowpanes annually and has long since resigned itself to the fact that a particularly obscene four-letter word will be continually scratched on the wall surfaces of nearly every building (since replastering is expensive and ineffective, janitors simply scratch deeper, change the word to BOOK and leave it as mute evidence of evil confounded). The city has ceased installing hot-air hand dryers in school washrooms (children quickly began filling their nozzles with ink, which blew over the next user...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Boys & Girls Together | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

...each stanza is declaimed, the entire cast freezes into a tintype tableau. Then everybody but Casey (Louis Venora), who is impressive but mute, bursts into songs of Schuman and Gury devising. Among them: a what-does-the-catcher-say-to-the-pitcher number, a kill-the-umpire rhubarb and, after the immortal third strike, a heartfelt requiem. But the piece ends on a happy note: Casey is still a hero to his girl. Musically, the opera was ingenious if not immortal-though at an hour and 20 minutes, it was about 20 minutes too long. Nonetheless, the Hartford audience seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Baseball in Cold Blood | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

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