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Word: stevenses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the meatpacking, oil and aviation city of Wichita, Kans. (pop. 250,000), there is no better entertainment, to judge from the attendance, than the weekly meetings of the five-man nonpartisan city commission. Spectators throng city hall to witness the give and take of sewerage, highway problems and business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KANSAS: Punchy Commission | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

Last week's Topic A was zoning. Adroitly, Commissioner Howse drew from a witness an admission that Commissioner Stevens had been privately consulted on a city zoning matter in which he had a possible interest. "It's just another attempt to smear me," retorted Stevens, whose nerves were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KANSAS: Punchy Commission | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

Cargo Manifest. In Louisville, after two youths snatched her black corduroy bag and police asked for a list of its contents, Millicent Stevens obliged: "A New Testament, one pen-ball pen, one blue-lead pencil, one double salt-and-pepper shaker, one small plastic box with green sample inside for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 24, 1958 | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

Playhouse 90: Daphne du Maurier's gothic tales would appear to be packed with protein for TV drama. They are well fused, charged with suspense and athrob with elemental passions. One of the best, The Little Photographer, tells a brooding crime story about a beautiful marquise who dallies in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

Unpolluted Prose. As decreed by Founder Eddy, who from its first issue vowed to serve "the better class of people everywhere," the Monitor maintains "a steady flow of dispatches designed to pierce the fog of confusion and the dictates of prejudice." has won 89 journalistic awards-most of them, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Newspaperman's Newspaper | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

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