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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other leading possibilities seem to be Judge David W. Peck Ll.B. '25 of the New York State Supreme Court and Judge Oris Phillips, also of the Federal Court of Appeals. The Law professor point out, however, that it was extremely difficult to know exactly who would be chosen to fill the post vacated by the death of Justice Robert Jackson...

Author: By John J. Iselin, | Title: Law Professors Suggest Successors for Jackson | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

Down with Skool, by Geoffrey Wiilans and Ronald Searle. Possibly the funniest junior class war since Peck's Bad Boy (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Oct. 25, 1954 | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

Such Sweet Sorrow. In Gallup, N. Mex., Fireman Paul Peck asked the town council to pay him for the ten days' work he did after he was fired, explained that he was hard of hearing and did not understand he had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 25, 1954 | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

...social outlook, Nigel recalls Peck's Bad Boy, while in some of his insights about adults, he might be a distant cousin of J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. As created by British Humorist Geoffrey Willans and Cartoonist Ronald Searle, Molesworth could scarcely be more British, but Americans will still find him highly amusing, for the Boys' International cuts across all frontiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Skoolsfor Skandal | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

...Girls. Coates, a 33-year-old New Yorker, lined up a cameraman and a producer-the Mirror's former assistant news editor, Jim Peck. He called his show Confidential File and set out to find some offbeat stories. He did not have to search far. His first show exposed the B-girl (barroom shill) racket in Los Angeles. Since then Coates has run programs on a homosexual (who freely showed his face on the program and was fired from his job the next day), shoplifters in action, a narcotics addict, a hypnotized woman, singing Brahms's Lullaby, giving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Slice of Life | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

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