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Weedhead's First Day. On his first day he: 1) made loud, pointed remarks about the physique of the prettiest teacher and tried to date her; 2) put his feet on a desk in the school office, lit a fresh cigar and called the principal "Skinny"; 3) picked a fight with the toughest kid in school and whaled him into quivering wreckage. Garza spoke knowingly of his ability to "blow the weed" (smoke marijuana), within the week had been nicknamed "Weedhead" and was the swaggering leader of the worst element in the institution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Teacher's Nightmare | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

Burl Ives (Columbia). An early welcome to Christmas, with a spuriously hearty number entitled Grandfather Kringle and a traditional English song, The Twelve Days of Christmas, which is one of the prettiest seasonal songs of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Oct. 29, 1951 | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

...named Ethel Monticue," whose "blue velvit frock had grown rarther short in the sleeves." Mr. Salteena and Ethel are at breakfast when a letter arrives from Mr. Salteena's friend, Bernard Clark, inviting him to come and stay and "bring one of your young ladies whichever is the prettiest in the face." Taking "out his blotter with a loud sniff," Mr. Salteena promptly replies: "Certinly I shall come ... I will bring Ethel Monticue commonly called Miss M. She is very active and pretty ... I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Small but Costly Crown | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

...Prettiest Brigades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: TURKEY: STRATEGIC & SCRAPPY | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

...prettiest little armored brigades you ever saw," George Wadsworth says, speaking of the Turkish army we've helped build. "They're really more like the German Panzer division. They're wonderful." He belligerently asserts it is "the best army in all of Europe" and defies any one to argue with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: TURKEY: STRATEGIC & SCRAPPY | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

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