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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year local elections, often treacherous to politicians and political pundits, usually turn on a name, a face or a voice. Among the names, faces and voices that came through last week: CJ In Pittsburgh (pop. 680,000), Mayor Dave Lawrence, 68, a Democratic boss who runs the wards and precincts with a clenched fist and welcomes civic redevelopment projects with an open hand (TIME, Nov. 4), ignored feeble Republican attempts to trip him on such issues as Little Rock and a local trolley strike (typically, both strikers and management came to Dave Lawrence's defense), rolled to a fourth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Scattered Returns | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

Meanwhile, speculation was rampant over possible motives for the beating. At Yale, David E. Hunt, assistant professor of psychology, suggested that the tensions which often accompany a major contest such as the Yale-Princeton, Harvard-Princeton, or Harvard-Yale games may have overwhelmed the players, who sought emotional release in beating the 16-year...

Author: By Robert B. Semple jr., | Title: PRINCETON FOOTBALL STARS MAUL 16-YEAR-OLD YOUTH | 11/16/1957 | See Source »

...second and third scoreless quarters saw Brown, realizing that Harvard had not scored, deciding they might score on Princeton's conqueror after all. Play shifted up and down the field, often halted by whistles penalizing Brown's rather bearish quality of soccer...

Author: By Walter E. Wilson, | Title: Soccermen Defeat Brown In Final Period, 2 to 1 | 11/16/1957 | See Source »

...much with the role of Cora as nearly anyone could. Pat Hingle acts Rubin as solidly as he did Gooper in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Eileen Heckart, as Lottie, impresses many people as magnificent--a loosely jointed, many-toned caricature actress a la Roz Russel. She is often most amusing, often overdone. As a friend of Reenie's, Evans Evans is wacky, flappery, and fun, except in her emotional scene, where she seems hollow...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: The Dark at the Top of the Stairs | 11/13/1957 | See Source »

Farnum frowned at the sound of a passing automobile. "Young man," he said, "it is particularly disturbing to learn how often women participate in these atrocities. I mean, you would think. . ." He paused thoughtfully...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: The Moral Issue | 11/13/1957 | See Source »

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