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By the time Goodie graduated, his father was in financial difficulties, unable to send him to college. Goodie went to work as a single jacker in a Nevada mine, pounding out blast holes with a sledgehammer ("Very good for the shoulders,'' says Goodie) and saved enough money to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Don Juan in Heaven | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

If Gilbert and Sullivan productions were supposed to approach realism, I would have to say Mr. Greene is somewhat wooden, and that Mr. Sperry reads his lines like a Sunday orator. But what Gilbert thought of as sentiment is now considered silly, and the overdone speeches fully contribute to the...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: The Gondoliers | 5/5/1955 | See Source »

...shining example. It was a whopping success; George decided that the law was the field for him. Medals & Mobs. He went to Mercer University (which, in 1947, named its law school after George), won medals for extemporaneous speaking four years in a row, took the Georgia and Southern States oratorical championships in his first year of law school, graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and received his law degree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Voice of the 84th | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

Diplomatic Miracle. Since the Tories returned to power in 1951, Eden's stature has grown steadily. He is not a man of power by instinct or by character, and for too long he has lived in the shade of the great Churchillian oak. Eden has had to conquer a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sir Anthony Eden: The Man Who Waited | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

Last week the news out of Turin was that for the first time since World War II, the anti-Communist unions had won a clear-cut majority of the shop stewards. The vote surprised everybody, including the Communists themselves. They had sent in their leading labor orator, Giuseppe di Vittorio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Fortress Fiat Falls | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

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