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...Indiana textbook commissioner last week struck a blow for decency and free enterprise by demanding that children cease all reading of the Robin Hood legend in schools. It is high time someone exposed the story for what it really is: a cleverly-disguised piece of dialectic materialism written by a Red-tainted radical far ahead of his time...

Author: By Richard H. Ullman, | Title: Robin Hood | 11/18/1953 | See Source »

...plot unfolds, more and more evidence of Commie propaganda is visible. The shire is on a five-year-plan to recover deer loses. But the climax comes in the blood purge at the end of the legend. Like Trotsky, Robin is found guilty of disloyalty to the state and is efficiently purged...

Author: By Richard H. Ullman, | Title: Robin Hood | 11/18/1953 | See Source »

...Indiana's textbook commissioner said, "There is a Communist directive in education now to stress the story of Robin Hood." Such a forthright cry deserves applause. America's youth must be saved from so insidious a menace...

Author: By Richard H. Ullman, | Title: Robin Hood | 11/18/1953 | See Source »

...lacrosse, with only five Ivy schools fielding teams, a round robin schedule might be too expensive. Because of this, the agreement proposes a lacrosse league "if financially feasible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ivy League | 11/5/1953 | See Source »

...baseball team, billed as the "greatest array of major-league stars ever to visit Japan," was staggered, 5-4, in its opening game, by the Mainichi Orions, a second-division club in the Pacific League. Among the fallen stars: Yankees Yogi Berra and Billy Martin, Pitchers Mike Garcia and Robin Roberts, and Home-Run Kings Ed Mathews and Hank Sauer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Nov. 2, 1953 | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

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