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Kenya's white settlers blame Kimathi for the recent murder of Planter Roger Ruck, his wife and six-year-old son, hacked to pieces as they strolled in their garden in their pajamas. One white policeman, a friend of the Rucks, is flushing the jungle alone, determined to get Kimathi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: Frontier War | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

Snow Camera. The Army's Research and Development Laboratories at Fort Belvoir, Va. got orders to design a special camera to take pictures of snowflakes. Army brass demanded that it be impervious to weather and so simple that a six-year-old child could work it with mittens on. The first model, completed in 40 days, is probably the most specialized camera ever built. It is prefocused, contains its own light source and magnifies three imes. When the operator inserts a snow sample on a sliding shelf and presses a button, he has his picture. The Army will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Wrinkles | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

...home town), an officer in the Naval Reserve, a tutor, an instructor, and a father, he rarely finds time for vacation--save for the antics of his kids. "Oh boy, it's fierce at night," he muses, "but marvelous to see them grow up. I remember my six-year-old turned to me at dinner one night and said, 'Daddy, when I'm forty years old, you'll be dead'. It took me a few minutes to prove even to myself that he might be wrong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Uncle Tom's Cabana | 2/6/1953 | See Source »

...kidnap a girl, then beat her." The show, said Mabley grimly, "was written and produced expressly for children and put on the air over the NBC network at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, so that it could catch all children ... It's frightening to see these five-and six-year-old tots sitting spellbound before TV sets, soaking up this sadism. It is the height of irresponsibility for a network to so callously disregard the well being of children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Sinful & Suggestive? | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

...setting the Saratoga mansion of Beer Baron Marko (Broderick Crawford) in the post-Prohibition era. Here is assembled an assortment of corpses & coppers, mugs & molls, touts & thugs, not to mention a couple of bankers attempting to foreclose on Marko's needled beer brewery, an obnoxious six-year-old orphan with a squirt gun (Louis Lettieri), and a dowager with a lorgnette (Margaret Dumont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 22, 1952 | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

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