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Identification. In Lafayette, Ind., thieves broke into a clothing store, stole $18 worth of boys' sport shirts, each emblazoned with the legend: "I'm a Little Stinker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 5, 1953 | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

FORTUNE. "Pretty difficult," said Stassen when he came out of the examination room. Groaned Jackson: "It was a stinker." They both passed, although FOA staffers noted bitterly that neither had a job at stake. When their marks were made public last week (other test results were kept confidential), Director Stassen had notched up a 52 out of a possible 70 in the public affairs test; Jackson had hit 49 out of 70. This gave Stassen, experts said, a rating of "excellent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUREAUCRACY: Stassen's Quiz | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

Wake for the Dead. Conservative civil servants learned to fear Templer's thin-lipped, tigerish sneer. Asians loved it when he looked a prevaricating Asian politician in the eye and said: "You're a stinker." Everywhere he went he was appalled by the indolent attitude of the Europeans. He told a Rotarian audience: "You see today how the Communists work . . . They seldom go to the races. They seldom go to dinner parties or cocktail parties. And they do not play golf." Even as he spoke, the Perak Derby was being run on the track at Ipoh, tin-mining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF MALAYA: Smiling Tiger | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

...Today's bomb is yesterday's turkey, brodie, stinker, flopperoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: From the Shoulder | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

After Burt Lancaster comes a little stinker called The Magic Face. William Shirer narrates an idiotic story about how Hitler died. You guessed, it Luther Adler, plays the Feuhrer...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: Ten Tall Men | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

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