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The letter caused an uproar among the Aggies. One night last week a group of students marched into Clark's room, packed up his books and clothes, gave him $6 for gasoline money and escorted him out to his car. "We can't force you to leave," Clark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dear Darling Aggies . . . | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

These investigations were partisan in nature, but they also produced some constructive results, e.g., the act setting up the Securities and Exchange Commission; As a result of both the Teapot Dome investigations of the 1920s and the money investigations of the 1930s, shining reputations were dulled and some leading citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE NATION | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

Behind locked doors last week, directors of Manhattan's Equitable Life Assurance Society met to perform an unpleasant job: the ouster of Chairman Thomas I. Parkinson, 71. They did not have much choice. State Superintendent of Insurance Alfred J. Bohlinger, who had brought out a report charging Parkinson with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSURANCE: Parkinson Out | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

Francois Mauriac's specialty consists in creating a handful of morally diseased characters and dragging them through a couple of hundred pages reeking of sin and sensuality. The French, including many devout Roman Catholics, have an unpleasant word to describe the distinguished Catholic author's novels. It is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Skeleton of Sin | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

Soprano Schwarzkopf chose her favorite form, German lieder, and, from the time she first opened her mouth, never uttered an unpleasant sound. She ranged with practiced ease from a fragile, little-girl voice in such songs as Schubert's Die Vogel to big, dramatic tones in Hugo Wolf'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Delayed Debut | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

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