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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seigenthaler offered them $1,000 for their story. They refused. "If money had meant anything to us," said Betty McCuddy, "we wouldn't have done what we did. We were in love." But in the days that followed, some of the tale emerged anyhow. The course of love had not been easy. Running away had not cured Buntin of drinking. In Brownsville, where the couple settled in the early '305, he had lost job after job as a car salesman and service man. A fall from a curb had damaged his hip so badly that he had walked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Visitors in Limbo | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

...idea of U.S. atomic superiority, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky told the U.N. last week, "is a mere fairy tale ... an echo of the olden days of 1946 and 1947. The Soviet Union does have the atomic bomb and does have the hydrogen bomb .. . . The Soviet Union is not behind other countries in this respect, other countries which, I may add, perhaps may not have all the armaments of this type which the Soviet Union has." Was Vishinsky bragging emptily? Washington correspondents, after taking a few soundings among the close-mouthed U.S. atomic experts, concluded: "If he is not precisely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Echo of Olden Days | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

...mother) all sang like fine anti-Wagnerians. And though the delicate voice of Soprano Nadine Conner (Mélisande) sometimes seemed half lost in the glimmering sound from the orchestra pit, her performance came even closer than the others' to the opera's fairy-tale intention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Anti-Wagner Opera | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

...feature in the current issue of Reader's Digest (circ. 17.5 million) is a condensation of The Man Who Wouldn't Talk, a spine-chilling tale about a "gentle spy" by Quentin Reynolds. In Reynolds' crackling, reportorial prose, the book describes "quiet, religious" George DuPre, a Canadian who entered British Intelligence early in World War II and prepared for a strange mission. For nine months he was trained to behave like "the village halfwit" so that he could play the part of a harmless, moronic French garage mechanic after he was dropped behind the German lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Man Who Talked | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

...story is a key step in the Communist plan to infiltrate young, innocent minds. What child has not heard this tale of a proletarian who robs from the rich to give to the poor? And what is more unalterably opposed to the American way of life than a communal band sharing their profit together in the woods...

Author: By Richard H. Ullman, | Title: Robin Hood | 11/18/1953 | See Source »

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