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...native Maoris, a people of Polynesian race, killed many and driven the survivors off the good pasture lands. In 1856 Dr. Isaac E. Featherston, a member of Parliament, wrote: "The Maoris are dying out. Our plain duty, as good, compassionate colonists, is to smooth down their dying pillow. Then history will have nothing to reproach us with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ZEALAND: Maori Knight | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

...Detroit Symphony Orchestra, which, after constant financial difficulty, finally folded up. One morning last spring, he called at the sanitarium, told attendants he was taking Virginia to a dentist, drove her away in his automobile. Down a side road, he stopped his car, put a pillow behind the girl's head, and shot her dead. Then he fired two shots into his own chest, lost consciousness, revived, and shot himself twice more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Murder or Mercy? | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

With Lessen away for the weekend, the animals had a high old time, knocking over sundry articles and tearing open a pillow case. When Lessen returned, around 10 p.m. Sunday, the melange had messed things up considerably and, to add to Lessen's troubles, the culprits who broke into his room in the first place had blown the light fuse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tutor Sees Local Fauna Obey Law of Jungle in His Room | 5/31/1950 | See Source »

...corner, who forwarded it to the national association of florists, candy merchants, and bed jacket vendors in executive session in New York City. Mother's Day, an American Institution, was born. A public which proved to be the greatest market in the world for "cards for all occasions," embroidered pillow-slips, and cut-rate telegraph plaudits has taken Mother's Day to its soft, fatuous heart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mammy! | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

...read it in an oddly methodical way. First he tore off Page One and the editorial page of the bulky newspaper. The moment he had laid aside the body of the paper a masseuse stepped into the room. Reader Sulzberger, having laid his two favorite pages on the pillow, stole glances at them as she pummeled his back. When the rite was over, he sat up, and as the masseuse worked at the fingers of his right hand, stiff from a palm affliction, Sulzberger picked up the detached Page One of the Times in his left. Rapidly, his marble-bright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Without Fear or Favor | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

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