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...made of gunpowder, set to be detonated by a cheap watch movement wired to a flashlight battery-all contained in a short (2-5 in.) length of ordinary pipe capped at both ends. And, to provide the final touch, the pipe was stuffed into a man's red sock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Mad Bomber | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

...trouped churchmen of all denominations to the previews, solicited their comments. Instead of the usual reviewers' blurbs ("Terrific" -Crowther. New York Times), Paramount's huge ads could now carry blurbs from churchmen ("Moving"-Spellman, New York Archdiocese). The line-up was impressive. Methodist Dr. Ralph 'Sock-man: "It brings the authentic views of the Bible's landscape to the man living on Main Street.'' Dr. W. A. Criswell of Dal las' First Baptist Church: "We are not the same after we have lived through the experience of following Moses through this picture." Rabbi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mount Sinai to Main Street | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

...actually very little understood by them. The general consensus seems to be that the University exercises some sort of influence over the choice of plays put on by the drama groups. But the influence here does not consist of controls from without. As William Talbot, president of the Sock and Buskin, explained, his group has faculty members, and consequently any decision it makes is naturely not a purely student decision...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Brown Man's Burden | 11/17/1956 | See Source »

...University also maintains a certain amount of outside control over drama, as is reflected in the fact that all play programs read "Brown University presents" rather than merely "The Sock and Buskin presents." One aspect of this control is that the University handles the money for all drama groups on the campus. "It would be tremendously difficult for us to handle the money," Talbot said. "I just can't conceive of how an undergraduate could...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Brown Man's Burden | 11/17/1956 | See Source »

...unprepared for the Keef's arrival-late as it invariably was. There was something of the horse-drawn medicine show about Kefauver's approach-neither high road nor low road, but side-of-the-road. No one but Estes would pause to cut a hole in his sock because his toe hurt ("Gotta give it some air"); only Estes could stand in the Janesville, Wis. public square, beside a flower bed vivid with petunias and marigolds, and beneath a dingy World War monument, look into the inscrutable, tooth less faces of a small group of old people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE U.S. IN KALEIDOSCOPE | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

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