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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your April 23 "End of the Rope," I am sure Albert Pierrepoint would be flattered by your statement that he is 45, and, in fact, he looks no older. But he is 50. Not so flattered is the Empire News and Sunday Chronicle when you quote its circulation as 1,961,230. The audited and published average net sales show a circulation of 1,994,311 in July-December 1954 and 2,532,540 in December 1955. The circulation is still rising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 21, 1956 | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...friend five years older than I gave me help. He was a Communist. These were my happiest years. I rushed from one meeting to another. I believed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Pinhole Protest | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

Ochab is not the only top Polish Communist to fear that relaxation of controls may be getting out of hand. Some older Communists are continually putting the brakes on; others do not agree that the past was wrong, and although they are willing to accept some changes, they are still clinging to the old line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Pinhole Protest | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

Item: In Fort Worth 16-year-olds have carved his name into their forearms with clasp knives (one did it four times), and an older woman was heard to plead with him: "I've got my husband's Cadillac outside. Come with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Teeners' Hero | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...hated the orphanage. As one of the older children, Norma Jeane was assigned to wash the dishes: 100 plates, 100 cups, 100 knives, forks, spoons. "I did it three times a day, seven days a week," says Marilyn. "But it wasn't so bad. It was worse to scrub out the toilets." As payment for their work, most of the children got 5? a month. Since everybody had to put a penny in the plate on Sunday, that left each child with 1? a month to spend. With her penny, Norma Jeane usually bought a ribbon for her hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: To Aristophanes & Back | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

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