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Secret of the Universe. Back in the U.S. at last, Parry reported in to Travis Air Force Base, near Sacramento. But neither married life (sans children) nor the Air Force itself was going to interfere with his quest for the supreme shotput. "They acted like they felt I could work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Great White Whale | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

Indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver last week: 14 officials and staff members of the Communist-dominated International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. They were charged with conspiring to defraud the U.S. by obtaining the services of the National Labor Relations Board without lawfully qualifying the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Trouble for Mine-Mill | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

Two plainclothesmen strode last week into Cairo's Metropolitan Hotel, rapped on Correspondent William (Steve) Stevenson's door and gave the Toronto Star's 33-year-old roving newsman 24 hours to get out of Egypt. Also expelled for spreading "falsehoods and fabrications to mislead public opinion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Star's Star | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

All books about faithful dogs have one thing in common: almost complete immunity from literary criticism. Who would be rash enough to examine the soft underbelly of Bob, Son of Battle or cock an ear to the corny notes in The Voice of Bugle Ann? The same armor of sentimentality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mongrel Hero | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

Now Old Yeller wasn't much to look at: big, ungainly and downright ugly, with his mangy yellow coat and sneak-thief ways. But in Texas of the 1860s, with father away on a cattle drive to Kansas and mother and small brother to look after, Travis figured that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mongrel Hero | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

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