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...least twice as complicated. Containing elements of Talent Scouts, telephone quizzes, and the bygone "Miss Hush" mysteries of radio's Truth and Consequences, Surprise will ask viewers to supply the name of someone who is about to receive a surprise-a promotion, a plaque, a reunion with relatives, in fact, anything at all. The "surprise" will then be shown on the program, and that clears the way for one of those concerned-either the surprisee, the talent scout, or some people selected by a new electronic machine-to answer a riddle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Upped Ante | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

Cheaper by the Dozen. In Dallas, after the Times Herald quoted Mrs. Clara Margerum as saying she wanted to rent a house for a reunion with her twelve children, she received 93 offers, one a proposal of marriage from a suitor who wanted to claim her children as income tax exemptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 29, 1955 | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

...mechanic, three unemployed civilians and a student. They wore sports shirts mostly, open at the neck with the sleeves rolled up, and they had come to Governors Island in New York Harbor from distant places-Denver and Detroit, Cottonwood, Ala., and Hanging Rock, Ohio -for a long-awaited Army reunion. Center of the reunion: a clean-looking young Regular Army sergeant who smiled winningly beneath a mop of golden hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: A Mean & Cruel Heart | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...occasion for the reunion was a general court-martial, and the accused was the lad with the golden hair. Sergeant James C. Gallagher of Brooklyn was charged in ten specifications with consorting with the Chinese Communists and murdering three of his fellow American prisoners of war in Korea. The witnesses were sharp-tongued and bitter; one testified that he had buried one of the three dead G.I.s beside the Yalu River, and he swore: "I made a promise to that kid . . . that if God permitted me to get back home alive . . . the man who murdered him would be brought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: A Mean & Cruel Heart | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...shed on San Francisco's Embarcadero last week stood three young men, stiff and ill at ease, listening intently while an MP captain read an official paper. They had just had a happy reunion with their families, whom they had not seen in five years, and now the unpleasantness was about to begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Natives' Return | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

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