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Robert C. Greenlease, 71, Bobby's father, described the tortuous ransom negotiations with Hall. Mrs. Heady yawned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Side by Side | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

...magna cum laude for your article on the New York City public schools. It is an intelligent and moving insight into the tortuous process of adapting education from its aristocratic traditions into an instrument of service to a democracy . . . By faith, the public schools are trying to move cultural mountains . . . Some of the trigger-happy your critics article, should be and then required to take ' do a homework on postgraduate course at the feet of Principal [Margaret] Douglas and other devoted members of the system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 9, 1953 | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

...about an hour this three-way carnality is fairly absorbing stuff. Then as the inevitable safari winds its tortuous way through the second half it begins to get tiresome. Gardner and Gable are equipped with a set of stock grimaces and gestures which they manage to pass off as acting for a while. But when these wear out not even Ford's direction can help the picture. The most exciting characters in the second half of the picture are a group of screaming, chest-pounding buck gorillas...

Author: By J.anthony Lukas, | Title: Mogambo | 10/31/1953 | See Source »

...Mille Miglia, Varzi was coasting along the homestretch at night, confident that he was far in the lead. For miles, he had noticed no headlights behind him. Suddenly, out of the blackness, a car emerged, shot past him, finished first. For hours, Nuvolari had trailed Varzi over tortuous roads with his headlights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Last Race | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

After months of tortuous indecision, a French government was at action stations last week. The order: buoy up the nation's economy. With each succeeding day (including Sunday), the government sinks $6,000,000 deeper into the red. Millifranc notes are pouring from the government printing presses to float government payrolls, but soon the inflation must be plugged or the economy will be in danger of foundering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF INDO-CHINA: Cleared for Action | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

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