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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...duty to entertain. But when he wants facts from someone who is supposed to have them and he finds out they don't or are indifferent-well, then he can be bloody rude." He once interrupted a long-winded scientist in the midst of a long lecture, to remark: "That's all very well, but you still haven't found out what makes my bath water gurgle." On another occasion, he snapped at an admiral whose demeanor indicated he had drunk his lunch: "Well, Admiral, what do you think-that is, if you are still capable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Queen's Husband | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...This remark brought wild applause from many in the audience, over which Sullivan, shaking his fist, cried, "The citizens of Cambridge want the same kind of service I have given them and will elect me once again!" With this he stalked from the hall, surrounded by screaming and yelling citizens, most of whom left with...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Shaplin Gives Angry Tone To City's Election Meeting | 10/18/1957 | See Source »

...held firmly to the line he had laid down: "We have only one aim and one loyalty-to psychoanalysis." When Stekel big-heartedly attempted a late reconciliation, Freud turned a stony face to him. And when Adler died, the unforgiving Freud so far forgot his own Jewishness as to remark: "For a Jew boy out of a Viennese suburb, a death in Aberdeen is an unheard-of career in itself and a proof of how far he had got on. The world really rewarded him richly for his service in having contradicted psychoanalysis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Last Days of Freud | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

...displaced hillbilly from the mountains of Tennessee I resent your slurring, disgraceful, damnable remark about hillbillies and Governor Faubus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 7, 1957 | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

...touchdown passes and top off the scoring with a 13-yd. touchdown dash by Right Half Clendon Thomas. "We have a heck of a lot of polishing to do," said modest Oklahoma Co-Captain Don Stiller, just as if he had not noticed the final 26-0 score. The remark made almost as much sense as Coach Wilkinson's pre-game prediction: "Frankly, we don't expect to win at all." ¶ Bogged down by a driving rainstorm, Texas A. & M. needed every one of three versatile quarterbacks to salvage a tough game from Maryland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: And Still Champs | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

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