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After the House of Commons voted to outlaw the death penalty, Britain's Chief Hangman Albert Pierrepoint, 45, quit the job that has been in his family for 85 years and turned his strong, steady hand to his memoirs. Fleet Street, which has spiced many a grey Sunday with the death-cell memoirs of murder ers, bid eagerly for the chance to take their readers right into the execution chamber. The winner: Lord Kemsley's Sunday Empire News (circ. 1,961,230), which paid a reported ?40,000 ($112,000) for Pierrepoint's own story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: End of the Rope | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

...Arkansas Senator Fulbright the idea for the exchange scholarships that bear his name. The Post's latest crusade has been to build a fire under the clean elections bill now before the Senate with 85 Senators as its joint sponsors. Based on a Graham idea, the bill would outlaw heavy individual campaign contributions, provide for financing campaigns instead through bipartisan mass money-raising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Guest at Breakfast | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

...ideas of Taylor (who died while winding his watch) clashed head-on with the young labor movement, which in 1913 persuaded Congress to outlaw time studies in Government-owned plants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: MEASURING THE WORKER | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

...Littlest Outlaw (Disney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Box Office | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

...fair ones for the horrid sort splendid however insipid thrilling but incredible compelling heart warming absurd captivating headlong insulting uplifting perhaps bosomy driving money-maker for a dollar skilled Oscar candidate a woman in the back row insight for Broadway one eyed cameraman grandeur bad translation not since the Outlaw depth heavy a wounded swan real frantic a lead baloon disturbing stiff go over big in Boston gripping obscure simple guts pity posterior firey good try shifty smashing mother laughed Liberace smile tense inconsistent if I had a date climactic good music but Mr. Magoo genius even with Marilyn townies...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Take Your Choice | 3/13/1956 | See Source »

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