Word: petered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lawyer Peter Campbell Brown, 45, chairman in 1952-53 of the federal Subversive Activities Control Board. Last summer the Brown committee drafted a report blasting the Supreme Court's 1956-58 security decisions so harshly that Chief Justice Warren resigned from the A.B.A. (his resignation became final a fortnight ago). A.B.A. President Ross Malone stressed last week that in adopting the Brown committee's recommendations, the House of Delegates was not okaying its critical report...
...March 7 Black Saddle (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.). A meaningless title conceals a western about a lawyer (Peter Breck) almost as fast with his mouth as he is with his gun. It is all good, unwholesome...
...surprising frequency among peoples as far removed as possible from the life patterns of Madison Avenue and La Salle Street. Other diseases present similar paradoxes. Last week, at hearings on a bill to set up a $50-million-a-year National Institute of International Medical Research, Senators heard Dr. Peter D. Comanduras of Medico, a voluntary aid group, cite these examples...
ORDERS OF CHIVALRY (320 pp.)-Peter Vansittart-Abelard-Schuman...
...crises when people lose their skeletons and dwindle to a mess of unresolved aims, regrets, opportunities." And it is in such crises that the aimless look hungrily around in search of men who dazzle, hypnotize, even defraud them by sheer audacity. That is the text of British Novelist Peter Vansittart's latest novel (his first to be published in the U.S. was The Game and The Ground-TIME, May 6, 1957). Orders of Chivalry is witty, satirical, and one of the toughest, most trenchant novels to come out of Britain in recent years. Author Vansittart (38-year-old distant...