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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women of Germany who will find no husbands, whose husbands-to-be died all over the world . . . you are Germany's fairy godmothers. Only you can break the spell of evil magic. Only then will our people have a future, when it can again look upon virtuous and clean women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jesuit Crusader | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

...teacher plots and schemes to trap 500 boys ("Think of it! Five thousand fingers!") who have been dragged from their ballplaying. Happily, a likable plumber named Zabladowski comes to the rescue of the boy and his pretty mother (who was only under the unspeakable Terwilliker's hypnotic spell), and Dr. T., of course, gets his comeuppance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 22, 1953 | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

...nothing sadistic to report." Of his childhood: "Nor can I utter a single agonized cry of self-pity." As an Oxford undergraduate he joined "a little group . . . who were keenly interested in literature," but "rowing became the most important thing in life." He records only two rebellious outbursts: a spell of agnos-ticism at the age of 15, and playing hooky from Oxford exams in order to write his first volume of poems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life on the Right Bank | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

Doctors, who have long known that there is a rough relationship between TB and the emotions, had these facts spelled out for them last week at the Los Angeles meeting of the National Tuberculosis Association. And with the spell-out, came a theory about the body mechanism which governs the relationship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Helpful Fright | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

...worse sin can be committed ;han to take it unworthily. I would prefer therefor not to take it, but to have the funeral service performed when I am gone." After reading this note, the bishop said there was no hurry: the general would probably live for quite a spell yet. In reply, Grant sadly shook his head. "I am sure I am right for once ..." says the ast of his notes. "I have no desire to live

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The General's Notes | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

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