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...picture of his baby from 20 feet away, forgets to wind his film, and cannot tell a thyratron from a réseau.† He is looked down on by experts, but it is he who provides the vast ground swell of enthusiasm for photography, and he has helped pile up the statistics of photography's tremendous growth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Two Billion Clicks | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

Klein cited the need for increased donations this year since the national stock-pile of whole blood is "dangerously...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blood Drive Starts Monday; Band Act to Begin Campaign | 10/30/1953 | See Source »

...week, Democratic National Chairman Stephen Mitchell quietly slipped into enemy territory and outlined a plan for psychological warfare. Before 300 well-groomed members of the Democratic Club of Evanston, one of Chicago's richest suburbs, Mitchell admitted that the party is in trouble in suburbia. While Democratic candidates pile up healthy majorities in such cities as New York, Chicago and Cleveland, they take a real walloping just outside the city limits. Adlai Stevenson's 161,000-vote margin in Chicago last year was more than erased by a 177,000 majority for Eisenhower in suburban Cook County...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Psychology in Suburbia | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

During the third quarter of last year's Dartmouth game, a lone and blissful drunk wobbled from the stands and threw his arms around the north goal post. While he and the post swayed in unison, Boston police swung into action. A Keystone Cops chase with a Sonnet style pile-up at the finish followed, and as the drunk was led from the field it was touch and go as to whether he or the police looked sillier...

Author: By John A. Pope, | Title: Goal-Post Menders Have Weekly Job | 10/23/1953 | See Source »

...front of his large fireplace is a mountain of blue books. University rules require that each test booklet is kept for one year after the examination. And so Nock stacks the books carefully and on the three hundred and sixty-fifth day, he sweeps the pile into the fire. Then he prepares for the next batch...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: Murder in the Cathedral | 10/15/1953 | See Source »

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