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...officials who devote their time to the Harvard football team form a close-knit community with a long and proud tradition. But insofar as it implied this case was unique, the retort was dead wrong. In the last two days it has become unmistakably clear that there is something rotten in the "football community...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Ticket Mess | 11/14/1953 | See Source »

...Kingsberry paused a moment, trying to remember more pertinent facts. "Oh yes," he went on, "they had rotten luck on their timing. The day the hearing came up it was raining very hard, and I think about two or three inches fell...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Watching Clouds Drifting By | 10/20/1953 | See Source »

...moment of looking through the plate-glass sliding doors at the shrub-covered hillside above Los Angeles' famed Sunset Boulevard, she simply reached up and pulled a switch. Automatically, yellow cloth curtains rippled across, closing in the room. Said Mrs. Sigmund: "We'll be spoiled rotten by the time they take us home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Push-Button Hospital | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

...Malanites were also scandalized. Cried the Rand Daily Mail: "South Africa is not yet ready for Liberalism." Before returning to Natal, where he works in a tuberculosis sanitarium for Zulus, Alan Paton had a parting word: "He who waits until the time is ripe often waits until it is rotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: He Who Waits | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

Tippy Drake finished her striptease for Bart Elaine, slipped into her clothes, took five bucks off the dresser, and skipped out of the room. It was a rotten way to tease a guy who had had a heart attack and whose doctor had forbidden him to chase pieces of "raw, red meat" down the hospital corridor. Bart lay in bed, clutching the panties Tippy had tossed him, and howling: "She'll kill me, that white stretch of firm-fleshed, tall, beautiful mocking bitchery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Against Sin | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

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