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...Congress, Williams attacks his Republican legislature for failure to carry out the Williams program without trying to find a statesmanlike middle ground for action. For example, Michigan is rolling up an ever-increasing deficit. Soapy wants to lessen it by a corporate income tax (a C.I.O. project which would sock General Motors alone some $27 million a year). Soapy has vetoed major Republican efforts to work out substitute measures, which, say the Republicans, could have cleaned up the deficit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Prodigy's Progress | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...movie had to buck Manhattan's hottest July on record, a barrage of bad reviews, the Democratic convention on radio & TV. and the summer box-office slump. But Don't Bother to Knock (20th Century-Fox), reported Variety, reaped a "sock $26,000" its first week, then kept on "holding in fine fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Something for the Boys | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

...working on an interplanetary motorcycle), and Mary Backstage, Noble Wife ("There's usually an amnesia case or a brain operation going on"). Another character, played by Ray: Mary McGoon, a composite of all women commentators and home helpers (her cure for a cold: goosefat in an Argyle sock, hung around the neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Spoolers | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

Crimson squashmen will sock their second consecutive national team championship this weekend at New Haven, when they meet Hartford tomorrow in first round play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Champion Squash Team to Defend US Title at Yale | 2/21/1952 | See Source »

...Donna's head . . . there was a green-and-red-striped necktie next to her. I don't know whether I was awake ... or dreaming . . . but I saw that picture. Something told me to get up ... I went into the bedroom . . . There was no tie . . .I saw some socks on the floor. I picked one of them up ... and stepped over to Donna's bed and lifted her head with my right hand ... I put [the sock] around Donna's neck. I tied it once and pulled. Her arms lifted up ... and then sank back. She didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Come With Me Quick | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

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