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¶ During a recent Detroit trial, at which six party leaders were convicted, an FBI undercover agent conferred with the trusting Communist defendants the day before he testified as a surprise witness against them.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fight for Security | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

The plot is simple: A condemned father tells his two children, John and Pearl, where he has hidden ten thousand stolen dollars and makes them swear they will never disclose the secret. Most of the book concerns itself with the attempts of the father's released cell mate to make...

Author: By E. H. Harvey, | Title: The Night of the Hunter | 2/26/1954 | See Source »

Phyllis Povah plays the first wife, and as a simple trusting old lady she is quite good, unless one believes that all simple, trusting old ladies are overacting their parts. Mable Taylor, playing Emmie the family servant, is perhaps the outstanding actress in the show; she is provincial, she is...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Gently Does It | 10/20/1953 | See Source »

At 11 o'clock one morning last week, a chunky woman with red-tinted hair walked into the reception room at Kansas City's fashionable French Institute of Notre Dame de Sion. where Bobby Greenlease was a first-grader. She was Bobby's aunt, she said, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Dead or Alive? | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

Soft Wadding. Jacques smiled and refused. For a moment father and son clung to each other, as if too moved to speak. Then the old professor began: "It was very important, very lovely. And I must say that the chief merit of this undertaking goes to my son Jacques. It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Voyage of the Trieste | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

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