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Shrapnel & Atrocities. Perhaps most remarkable about the Boer War was its length: for nearly three years the might of the British Empire was fought off by a sprinkling of fiercely independent Dutch settlers in the interior of South Africa. The conflict saw history's last cavalry charge with lance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: When Brother Fought Brother | 8/30/1963 | See Source »

The two psychologists maintained that by using "prediction devices to deter-veloping into persistent delinquents because of faulty parental attitudes and behavior," it will be possible "to detect early signs of impending trouble and furnish skillful and timely therapy and instruction to children and parents in situations found to be...

Author: By Glenn ERIC Roberts, | Title: Future Delinquents Can Be Spotted, Gluecks Tell World Health Meeting | 7/23/1963 | See Source »

Hubert Cole's Laval is neither traitor nor hero. Instead he is a complex, unprepossessing peasant, skillful but overwhelmed by pride, brilliant but narrow, who gambled his life (plus what was left of his country's honor) in the hope of horse trading with Hitler to ease the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ogre or Scapegoat? | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

David Mills, as the English Gentleman Visiting America to Learn Its Quaint Customs is delightfully blustering and charmingly conceited if not overwhelmingly British. A skillful comic, he pursues his women with-admirable vitality and resilence.

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: "The New York Idea" Opens at Loeb | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

Director George Hamlin has done an extremely skillful blocking job, and the motion does much to augment the thin script. Hamlin's actors move in sumptuous surroundings, designed by Donald Soule. The living room set is appropriately busy and garish, and the bedroom scene is almost worth the price of...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: "The New York Idea" Opens at Loeb | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

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