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...Manhattan last week 1) called for the organization of an independent production unit solely concerned with plays for the road, 2) suggested an industry reserve fund to be built from a 10? bite on every ticket sold on the road, 3) sent Theatre Guild Director Lawrence Langner to plead with actors' agents that they persuade their clients to hit the road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ROAD: Trix to Fix Stix | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...United States of America versus Bernard Goldfine," droned the clerk in a Washington Federal Court. "You are charged with contempt of Congress. How do you wish to plead?" Rising from a front-row seat the man for whom life has become a nervous round of "the U.S. v." walked to the bench, announced a firm "Not guilty." Basis of the charges: 18 instances, during a hearing last summer of the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight (TIME, July 14 et seq.) in which the 68-year-old Boston millionaire and friend of Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams refused to answer questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEQUELS: U.S. v. B.G. | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

...adults who plead "Let's not get into a war" are unwittingly saying "war in their time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 3, 1958 | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

Quarles, apparently sympathetic, told the Army's Brucker to plead his case to White House Scientific Adviser Dr. James Killian. The President in press conference tried to head off a williwaw by insisting that Glennan's move was only part of a "study" in which the President himself would make the final ruling. But Glennan, plowing on, returned to Brucker's office at week's end with a written confirmation of his decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Fight for Space | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

Three men will appear in court today and plan to plead guilty to a charge of hurling a rock into a window of the Cafe Mozart at 12:30 a.m. yesterday morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drunks Break Cafe Window | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

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