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...often happens, when the boys in Hollywood get hold of a picture with a message they work so hard on the sermon that they spoil the picture. The Blackboard Jungle could have been a fine movie, but as it stands now it is an uneven one. It has tried just a little too hard both to shock and to preach...

Author: By John A. Pope, | Title: The Blackboard Jungle | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

...going to be a killjoy and spoil your reading, Subscriber Randall. You just go right ahead with what you were doing. And if you come across any clues as to what happened to that "lasting peace" we were working on during '44, please let me hear from you at once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 14, 1955 | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

...have worked on the problem, samples have been sent to Pakistan, endless embassy discussions have been held. Pakistan is willing to pay 42? a delivered pound, a loss to the U.S. of about 28? a pound. Although the U.S.-owned butter is now in cold storage, it may eventually spoil, and the Government will lose the 64? it paid for the average pound. There is no problem in storing ghee. In fact, some tasty Indian ghee has been kept 100 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Ex Oriente Lux | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

...Detroit could not score again. At last glacial Paul Brown had made it big. He had won his first "world championship"; he had wiped out the Lions' hex, and wiped the Lions' faces in the dirt. Not even reports of Otto Graham's retirement could spoil Coach Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Faces in the Dirt | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

...Card playing gives people a light-minded attitude toward money. Arguments arising during card games spoil the nature and character of people, and arguments lead often to fights, even murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fools Thrown Upon | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

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