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Cries will pierce deeper within me . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Farmer's Daughter | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, the biggest U.S. stockbroker, likes Wheaties. It took ads this spring in 90 U.S. newspapers ("We like Wheaties because") to explain why. In running a $50,000 contest, Wheaties' maker, General Mills Inc., had decided to pay the winners in stocks. Not to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Jackpot | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

Irving Wexler had only his own two hands to work with when he started his career in Manhattan's lower East Side. He used them to such smooth advantage in picking pockets that he became known as "Waxey" to his friends and the cops, took on the name of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: End of the Line | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

The Villainous Squire. Falkner has a style as proper to 18th Century adventure as anybody could ask for. His description of the villain, Squire Maskew, is characteristic: "He had a thin face with a sharp nose that looked as if it would peck you, and grey eyes that could pierce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Smugglers, Ahoy! | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

How well is the U.S. college teacher carrying out his primary responsibility, i.e., teaching his students how to think? Not at all well, says Harvard Philosopher Ralph Barton Perry (Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus), in the current Harvard Alumni Bulletin.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Art of Decision | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

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