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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...others tried to drag Joy from the villain's premises. They screamed at Joy: "You will go to hell!" Their efforts were futile. Wilson was unbruised, Joy unbound, when bobbies swooped down on the domestic scene. Crimson with anger, John Stewart offered Wilson's diary as proof that the rapscallion was "not a genius" but just plain "mad." Rasped Stewart: "He thinks he's God!" The diary, noted newsmen, was indeed rather bizarre. Excerpt: "How extraordinary that my fame should have corresponded with that of James Dean, Elvis Presley, Bill Haley and Lonnie Donegan, et al. Like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 4, 1957 | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...where we could cook dinner for the boys." We are entirely in sympathy with the change in feminine values from the tough career woman of the twenties to the current idealization of domesticity. But we still pay enough heed to romantic love, to be able to do without this proof of homemaking skill, at least until graduation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happiness | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...Special Committee finished receiving charges yesterday and will examine evidence and proof in the next few days...

Author: By Bryce E. Nelson, | Title: Hodel Agrees To Cooperate With Council | 3/1/1957 | See Source »

...Vaughn nor Briggs are regular on the freshman squad, which illustrates the tremendous depth and potential of this year's team. Andover, with Kirby Jones at number one singles, is regarded as a fair prep school squad, and the convincing manner in which the Crimson defeated them is conclusive proof of the Yardling's strength...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Heckscher Bows to Salaun in Finals of Middlesex Tourney | 2/19/1957 | See Source »

...week over, the Arabs prepared for their homeward trip. Somehow the presence of the somber child had taken the edge off much of the quibbling produced by the cautious politics and flaring passions that surrounded the King himself. The little prince had indeed stolen the show. The proof, in a sense, lay in the two extra trunks bought in the U.S. by the Arabs, in which will be shipped the plastic toys and doodads that are gifts from American children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Little Prince | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

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