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Droodles (Mon. 8 p.m.. NBC). A new comedy quiz with Chalk-Talker Roger Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Jun. 28, 1954 | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

...Talker. In Portland, Ore., Donald Blank held up Service Station Attendant Hugo Nelson, lost his pistol in a scuffle, was arrested while he tried to talk Nelson into giving it back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 10, 1954 | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

What would happen next depended on the Mau Mau leaders. They apparently disagreed. In the Aberdares, prisoners reported afterwards, Field Marshal Russia warned of a white man's trap: "Those who surrender . . . will be massacred by an atom bomb." But into General Gatamuki's camp came Truce-Talker Kareba, whom the British had released. He persuaded Gatamuki to give himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: Massacre at Gathuini | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

...vivid talker, he is perhaps better in a seminar than on the lecture platform. His conversations roams rapidly among his diverse interests. "My wife says I don't know how to dress . . . I love opera and follow the rising school of painters and writers around Boston . . . You know, the people who get exhibited on Newbury Street . . . I have a farm in Vermont. What else? Well," and then Howard Mumford Jones leans back in his chair and unconsciously sums up his influence in American letters, "Well," he says, "I have a clear, loud voice...

Author: By Michael O. Finkelstein, | Title: Keeping Up with the Jones | 11/28/1953 | See Source »

...feels liberated from the shoals of convention. Soon she breaks with her family because they refuse to accept a black friend into the lily-white sanctity of their home. She moves into the apartment of a bohemian couple and from there to the arms of Paul Clark, "an enchanting talker" with a seductive face. She is happy because of "the intensity of my identification with living," and because her lover, who works for the Native Affairs Department, is "at grips with the huge central problem of our country in our time, something that had oppressed me not only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Coming of Age | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

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