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Surging toward the 100-day-old barrier one combustible night last week, thousands of young West Berliners roared in unison: "The Wall must go!" Set against the doom-crying argument that West Berlin is a good place for youth to get out of, it was a notable show of spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Steadfast in Berlin | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

In recent years, the Civil War has become almost a minor industry in itself within the book trade. One historian after another has trampled out his own vintage from the fabled grapes of wrath. The boom dates roughly from 1934 and Douglas Southall Freeman's R. E. Lee; it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To Sorrow & Glory | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

Bob Wagner earned his win. Having turned against the bosses in order to ensure the support of the surging reform Democrats, Wagner managed to make bossism the campaign's big issue. Pale and drawn, his smile appearing as though it would fracture his face, Wagner campaigned tirelessly against such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Bob & the Bosses | 9/15/1961 | See Source »

Not since the 1953 East German uprising had the tide of refugees from Communism reached such flood proportions. In a week, the grey procession of escapees showing up at registration centers in West Berlin and West Germany leaped from the normal 500 a day to almost 1,500. At the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlin: Thunder in the Wings | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

Tynes's fine performance got strong backing from other American singers, particularly Mezzo-Soprano Lili Chookasian, 35, a voice teacher from Northwestern University, and Negro Tenor George Shirley, 27. Conductor Thomas Schippers handled Strauss's surging score with such brilliant control that he might even have satisfied the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Girl with Veins of Fire | 7/14/1961 | See Source »

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