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...faculty members and men in the street swarmed to the CRIMSON building yesterday morning and emptied it of over 3,000 I GO POGO buttons in little over an hour and a half. Long after the Pogo for President buttons were gone, people kept filing into the building with mute pleas in their eyes for more. There will be several thousand more early next week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pogo Starts Ruckus | 5/9/1952 | See Source »

...farmhouse ablaze, an exploding bomb, a boy running into a woods, a vineyard recognizably Yugoslavian by the way the vines were staked, another farmhouse and another man & wife told further chapters of the deaf-mute odyssey. A final drawing showed the Austrian guard picking him up at the border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Janos | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

...dumb child and the fear that presses down upon her. Young Anna Maria Alberghetti's fresh, lyrical voice roams the scales with the ease of a disembodied spirit. Miss Alberghetti, as Monica, shows a remarkable talent for a girl only fifteen years old. The one non-singing lead, mute Tobey, is gracefully and sensually interpreted by Leo Coleman...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: THE MEDIUM | 3/29/1952 | See Source »

...girls who weren't pills, and found out that the voting booths were the places where "particular people congregated." Diving into the wrong mailbox by mistake, I yanked out a package full of candy corn instead of the letter I was expecting from my insurance company. This was all mute evidence of a vastly vivacious and normal group of girls battling for the honor to lead the class...

Author: By Margaret Fechhelmer, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 10/24/1951 | See Source »

...floor when the familiar pull of gravity fades away. Could the weightless pilot, whipping through space at seven miles a second, depend on his sense of vision alone to keep his balance? Maybe. One of the doctors suggests a way to find out: 1) put a congenital deaf-mute (who has never had a normal sense of balance) in a diving suit; 2) submerge him until the buoyancy of water exactly balances gravity; 3) then give him "tasks of visual orientation" to perform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ad Astra | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

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