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...make certain changes for the better, such as no drinking champagne for breakfast and fewer bad cheques fobbed off on temperamental bootleggers. But they were wonderful years in a wonderful world of Mercer runabouts . . . Upmanns from Leavitt & Peirce and the reasonably low bail conventionally set at Boston's Precinct Station 16 for Harvard undergraduates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Wistfully, the Weed | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

Mutiny on the Bounty. In West Bountiful, Utah, Republican Leone Newton filed to run against her husband, Democrat Charles A. Newton, for precinct justice of the peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 4, 1958 | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

...Ninth Roxbury Precinct those arrested were not allowed to use telephones. When the host's wife tried to call the baby sitter, police grabbed her and then her husband who rushed to help, Krosney said. A brawl ensued, according to Krosney, in which the police clubbed the party goers rather liberally, and hit some of them when no resistance was being offered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Says Police 'Brutal' to Drinkers | 5/28/1958 | See Source »

...Dulsa & Jerque." Truth was Winchell had voted in at least the last two national elections (Elsa claimed that she got her information from a 1952 New York Post series) and could prove it; in 1956, he had proudly posed for a picture as he entered a Manhattan precinct booth to strike a blow for Ike and Dick. Said Walter: "I said to NBC I want them to show that picture of me voting every Tuesday until I got bored. Not until they got bored, but until I got bored." Last week Jack Paar, henceforth answerable to NBC's brass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Titans of Babel | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...occupied with false values and false gods, that the sensitive soul can only recoil in to himself, where, in a snug world--"the inner world of the human psyche," The Editor calls it--a fellow can find himself and discover the "most meaningful truth." But even in this hallowed precinct, citizen-youth finds no peace, for in withdrawal, today's young people "are endangering society's future" because they are failing to cope with the issues of the cold war. Eventually, in the view of The Editor, history will force crisis upon "our generation" and "that will drive a spark...

Author: By Gavin Scotts, | Title: The Editor | 4/29/1958 | See Source »

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