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...about Adlai Stevenson? We are so used to picking up the magazine, bracing ourselves when we come to "Democrats," all prepared to see the most unflattering picture of the week depicting someone or something, and reading a slanted article. This was a most .welcome change. GENEVIEVE J. PRYOR Fayetteville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 23, 1956 | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

...father and I were driving toward a mail box at the corner of Peachtree and Houston Streets when there came from nearby Pryor Street a roar . . . which sent a sensation of mingled fear and excitement coursing through my body . . . We saw a lame Negro bootblack from Herndon's barber shop pathetically trying to outrun a mob of whites. Less than a hundred yards from us the chase ended. We saw clubs and fists descending to the accompaniment of savage shouting and cursing. Suddenly a voice cried: 'There goes another nigger!' Its work done, the mob went after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: The Colored Man's White | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

Outside the Chicago Maternity Center, in the sweltering slums just south of the Loop, sidewalk vendors hawk their wares: secondhand suits, used razor blades, bottles of Dr. Pryor's Jinx Removing Bath Crystals. After dark, dope pushers, prostitutes and gangs of toughs prowl the soiled asphalt. Yet, unlike cops and truant officers, center staffers are seldom molested in the neighborhood. Even the hoods greet them on their rounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Baby Commandos | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

M/SGT. THEADORE M. PRYOR Camp Edwards, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 19, 1952 | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

Married. Lowell Thomas Jr., 26, photographer-son of the radio commentator; and Mary Taylor Pryor, 22, daughter of Samuel F. Pryor, Pan American World Airways bigwig and onetime Republican National Committeeman; in Greenwich, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 29, 1950 | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

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