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Highballing down a well-marked highway last week, Senator John McClellan's labor-rackets committee stopped the caravan to take on some extra cargo, and headed on. Destination: the front door of James Riddle Hoffa, slick, front-running mastermind of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, who hopes to take over the presidency from Dave Beck next month. The weighty new cargo, the committee hoped, would prove once and for all that Jimmy Hoffa hooked up with racketeers in what was eventually a successful attempt to seize power in the Teamster organization in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Hot Cargo | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

...circulation for the first time with its August 10 issue, Presbyterian Life announced proudly last week that it now reaches the "largest number of Christians assembled in one list since the birth of Jesus." Apace with the resurgence of religion in the U.S., the church-sponsored, slick-paper biweekly in less than ten years has grown into the world's biggest paid-circulation religious magazine and has helped to make sweeping changes in the economics and editorial approach of religious journalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Readers & Religion | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

...Strange One. From Calder Willingham's novel (End As a Man)-a slick, sadistic thriller about a Southern military academy and a notable film debut for Actor Ben Gazzara (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 19, 1957 | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

...Strange One. Calder Willingham's novel (End As a Man) about a Southern military academy makes a slick, sadistic thriller-a slashing good cinema debut for Actor Ben Gazzara (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 12, 1957 | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

...Strange One. Calder Willingham's novel (End As a Man) about a Southern military academy makes a slick, sadistic thriller-a slashing good cinema debut for Actor Ben Gazzara (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 5, 1957 | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

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