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...schoolgirls are probably the most evil creatures to appear in English letters since Shakespeare's lago. Not content to be confined to the pages of Punch, the horrible little monsters have now spread like a plague all over a British motion picture. If they have lost some of their sting in the transition, the girls are still as grotesquely humorous as they every were...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: The Belles of St. Trinian's | 10/11/1955 | See Source »

TIME'S Man of the Year: Thurgood Marshall [Sept. 19], for sparking the successful "effort to remove from U.S. life a paralyzing sting in its conscience and the ugliest blot upon its good name in the world." (THE REV.) PHILIP KIRRANE, S.S.J. Baltimore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 3, 1955 | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...about a thousand practical legal questions will interact powerfully with the decisions and attitudes of other men of similar and quite different and opposite views. The resultant of these forces will determine the pace, the style and the success of an effort to remove from U.S. life a paralyzing sting in its conscience and the ugliest blot upon its good name in the world. Failure to achieve an orderly solution of the Negro problem would be-and this Thurgood Marshall feels deeply-much more than defeat for the Negro. It would be a failure at the very core...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: The Tension of Change | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

...only the beginning of the scandals trouble for Texas politicians. So far, 21 people, including Democratic Congressman John J. Bell, have been indicted. Governor Shivers and Attorney General Shepperd have been rebuked by a state senate investigating committee for negligence and, no doubt, will feel the scandal's sting politically. As for Bascom Giles, he will go on trial again Aug. 15 in San Antonio for taking a $30,000 bribe, and still faces three other indictments charging him with taking bribes totaling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bonus for the Boys | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

...their thieving relations, the so-called "social" wasps, says Crompton, that have given the family such a bad name. In a righteously separate chapter on these bad actors, he reads an indictment against the yellow jackets that terrorize the summer terrace, filch from jam jars and deliver powerful stings that hurt humans for a week. The hunting wasps, says Crompton, are not to be smeared with guilt of association; they practically never sting people, he claims-and even if they do, they do not hurt half as much as social wasps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Friendly Sharpshooter | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

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