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...Presley's bobby-sox worshippers (several with babes in arms), decided that the gas-station pair were the aggressors, socked them with fines totaling $40. Cheers rocked the court. Elvis fought his way out through screaming admirers, went home and relaxed by playing with his puppy dog, Sweet Pea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 29, 1956 | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

...good as he ever was. In 34 years he has made more than 20 movies, and most of them (The Million, The Italian Straw Hat, The Ghost Goes West, Beauties of the Night) are lovely things-as breezy as a Paris gutter, as delicate as a young French pea. This one is no exception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 15, 1956 | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

With your beautiful pictures of Civil War battlefields you also show two maps, one with Arkansas, but not a single pin point to indicate that we were in that war too. Can't we rate at least a pinpoint acknowledgment? Pea Ridge opened up the Mississippi River for Shiloh and Vicksburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 25, 1956 | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

...after setting, had taken around twice that time to work. Informed of the bomb, Harding mused: "That's funny. I slept better than usual last night." He added dryly: "I'm told there's a story-of a princess who couldn't sleep for a pea under her mattress. It puzzles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: The Field Marshal's Pea | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

...Calcutta's Dr. Sudhir Nath Sanyal reports a high degree of success in cutting down the birth rate by using metaxylohydroquinone an extract derived originally from the common Indian garden pea* (Pisum sativum), now synthesized in the laboratory. Taken by mouth, it cut the birth rate among 232 women by about two-thirds over a 15-month period, he reports. Some U.S. researchers scoffed at Dr. Sanyal's methods and results; others listened with interest because they consider him a careful, conscientious worker. The Indian government rated his findings worth a full-scale trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: For Teeming India | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

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