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...Driving his aluminum-clad streamliner powered by two souped-up Chrysler engines with a total of 850 h.p., Marion ("Mickey") Thompson, 29, a pressman for the Los Angeles Times, whistled at 272.3 m.p.h. over Utah's Bonneville salt flats in the 10th national speed trials, the fastest speed ever recorded by an American driver or an American-built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Sep. 8, 1958 | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

...asked if it could be pronounced "dye . . ." That pronunciation was wrong, but she was told to go ahead. When she misspelled the word (only one s). judges decided that she had been misled. Jolitta was allowed to try Quincunx. She spelled it, and, in spite of protests from Pittsburgh Pressman Joe Williams, Tina's escort, the deadlock continued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The $1,000 Word | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

...David Pressman's direction was adequate, though he let some of the cast pace their lines too slowly; and there were other signs of insufficient rehearsal time. E. G. Marshall, as the Rev. Anderson, gave us another example of his skill in a character-type role. Felicia Montealegre, as his wife, did her captivating best with an absurdly implausible role. Kevin McCarthy was exuberantly athletic and flery in the leading role of the brash and blasphemous wayward son Dick Dudgeon. Martyn Green relished his brief appearance in act three as the sly General Burgoyne; and Muriel Berkson, Edward Finnegan...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Sixth Annual Boston Arts Festival Evaluated | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...Harvey Pressman of Brandeis University won the impromptu speaking contest. Richard Roberts of Kentucky was ranked the top individual debater in the tournament...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debate Tournament | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...explains. "I told them their ethics and integrity ought to be a matter for them to work out with themselves. But it was no dice. Now I feel it's my missionary duty to see this thing through." This week the council invited Pressman and representatives of all three networks to a formal session devoted to the admission of radio-TV crews to cover all sessions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Shoe-Leather Man | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

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