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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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A man who knows the Atlantic almost as well as his own washbowl. Grandpa Max Conrad, 57, who has crossed that ocean 56 times on solo flights in light aircraft, set down at Washington's Army and Navy Club to get a yard-high, gold-plated trophy honoring two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 28, 1959 | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

The Herins yanked Barbara Jean out of Teacher Russell's class and consulted their pastor. He fired off a letter to Principal Larsh, who quickly agreed that the poems were "unsuitable" and that the book would be withdrawn. When Teacher Russell refused to do so, Alfred S. Roberts, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sin of Commission? | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Eight years ago, Actor Bosley was a restaurant doorman. Born in Chicago, he started out there after discharge from the Navy in 1946, worked on local radio shows, did summer stock. Moving on to New York four years later, he picked up small acting jobs off Broadway and on TV...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: New Little Flower | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Mankowitz has exercised his self-reserved right so often that today he is less poacher than pro. Son of an East End trader who taught him that "the only good deal is one that shows everyone a profit," Cambridge-educated Wolf Mankowitz has made a good deal indeed for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER ABROAD: More English Than the English? | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Just before curtain time, a member of the audience took the stage. He wore a dark blazer, his goatee was white as a light bulb, his hearing aid seemed to be made of sterling silver. The invited audience-a collector's treasure of florists, bellhops, desk clerks, Schrafft'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OFF BROADWAY: Leave It to Perky | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

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