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...schoolmasters remembers Rex as "what we called a posh boy, always neat and well groomed. Pretty unusual in a schoolboy. But he was likable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Charmer | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

Recommended reading and an excellent traveling companion for those touring Europe: Years of Trial and Hope by Harry S. Truman. Preface-"Any schoolboy's afterthought is worth more than the forethought of the greatest statesmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 25, 1956 | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

Homework. In Hemet, Calif., a schoolboy dropped into a stationery store, browsed around, sheepishly asked the clerk: "Have you got any blank report cards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 25, 1956 | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

When doctors prescribed physical exercise for his failing health four years ago, British Schoolboy John Beharrell had just the excuse he needed to enjoy himself on the golf course. This year, when doctors told him to quit his classes entirely, Beharrell, 18, happily put in his free time polishing up his game. He did a fine job. At Troon, Scotland last week he had the shots, the stamina and the concentration to hold off Glasgow Insurance-man Leslie Taylor, 5 and 4, and win the British amateur championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Youngest Yet | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

...loves, though they are engaged to be married and he is about to go into battle. Later on, she refuses to marry him because, during a period when she thought him dead, she had not refused other men. After watching Actor Kerr (who played the schoolboy falsely accused of homosexuality in Broadway's Tea and Sympathy) go gollygoshing through the love scenes in his second screen role, the audience may reasonably suspect that the French girl has simply been trying, in a tactful way, to say no thanks, buster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 28, 1956 | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

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