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Dates: during 1950-1959
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George Harris grew up on a 280-acre farm in Todd County, Ky., 100 miles or more from Joe Moore's home across the line in Tennessee. By the time he was ten, his pre-dawn routine included milking eight cows and helping feed the hogs and mules. The big breakfast that followed was easily worked off in a three-mile hike to school. Summers it was full time at chopping corn, suckering tobacco, pitching hay. By the time he was eleven he was plowing a mule to a double shovel, and the next year he was allowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publisher's Letter, Oct. 24, 1955 | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

...known as Toast of the Town until last month). Drama? Ed has given his viewers excerpts from more than 50 Broadway hits, including the smash successes Pajama Game, The Member of the Wedding, South Pacific and Don Juan in Hell. Movies? Sullivan's show pioneered in showing pre-release snatches of films (as in this week's Guys & Dolls, starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons and Frank Sinatra, with music by Frank Loesser). Comedians? Ed has ransacked the U.S. and Europe for funnymen; Victor Borge, Jackie Gleason, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis all made their TV debuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Big As All Outdoors | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

...legal reforms now underway in the U.S.S.R. The trend in these reforms, he notes, is in the direction of increased rights for the accused and greater leniency in sentences. Any crimes which can be construed as offenses against the State are still harshly punished, however, and there exists a pre-trial hearing in which the accused is without right to counsel. But reforms are being pressed even in these matters, Berman reports...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: 'Visiting' Professors: Cambridge to Kazakhstan | 10/14/1955 | See Source »

They've got to learn the tough way - the way of youth groups with their three-day marches into Negeb and the way of pre-military training courses - what it means to be an Israeli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Missions in Israel | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Kamin himself arrived in Boston yesterday to begin several days to pre-trail briefings by his lawyers Calvin P. Bartlett and John L. Saltonstal...

Author: By Victor K. Mcelheny, | Title: Senators Ask Excusal From Kamin's Trial | 10/8/1955 | See Source »

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