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...Princess, who merely exercises her social graces and has a very remote chance of succeeding to the throne, should be denied by ecclesiastical prescription the right to marry an innocent party to a divorce. That odd piece of inconsistency may be typically English, but it has more than a smack of English hypocrisy about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRINCESS MARGARET'S DECISION: RIGHT OR WRONG? | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...summer of 1465, "you are a handsome, proud, gallant, honorable and slightly obsolete figure." At these words Robert Taylor recoils. It is startling enough for a 44-year-old matinee idol to hear himself described like an overage destroyer; but to be addressed in literate and amusing English smack-dab in the middle of a Hollywood thud-and-blunder opus is a shock almost as sharp as seeing Sir Walter Scott in the old Stut 'n' Tup on Beverly Boulevard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 31, 1955 | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

Alert City. New York City, 400 miles to the north, lay smack in Zone's path...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hurricane's Way | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

Tuskegee is about 100 miles westward, smack in the middle of Macon County, Alabama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 9, 1955 | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

Rossano struck out four and allowed only two Huskies to smack the ball out of the infield. The varsity's winning run was scored when Matt Botsford singled Don Butters home from second in the seventh inning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Edges Northeastern, 4-3; Rossano Retires 13 in Relief Role | 5/3/1955 | See Source »

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