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...Labor M.P Bessie Braddock (TIME, May 9), honorary president (she says) of a professional boxers' association. Arriving from the House of Commons by bus. Bessie togged in her usual drab blue suit, swept past the club's haughty doormen, bounced inside to utter some dock-walloper pleasantries. To some of London's uppercrustiest, amazonian Mrs. Braddock announced: "I intend as a reciprocal arrangement to invite Miss Dietrich along to the House of Commons." Society patrons responded with a hoarse cheer so blatant that Marlene, entering in a bit of gossamer so diaphanous that Britain's press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 18, 1955 | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

...Serious character defects mark what used to be called the "constitutional psychopathic inferior," more recently known simply as the psychopath (and some experts want to change it again to "sociopath") Commonest feature: utter selfishness, in which the victim knows the difference between right and wrong but does not care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Psychiatry at Work | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

...Utter Lack of Ideals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Sympathies Result in Firing | 6/17/1955 | See Source »

...grades, to be taught by teachers imbued with our American ideals of democracy, loyalty, love of country, and respect for our tradition of freedom," the majority wrote, "and we do not believe that love for these ideals can be properly transmitted by a person whose personal contact shows an utter lack of understanding of them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Sympathies Result in Firing | 6/17/1955 | See Source »

...have been so modest; yet Gwen Verdon is far from humble. She knows her ability, studies and practices her art constantly and, though she is impulsively zany enough to dye her white cat's tail pink on the spur of the moment, she takes her professional life with utter seriousness. Riding the wave crest of her first big success, modest Gwen Verdon gives herself only five more years as a dancer. But the suddenly astute showmen of Broadway and Hollywood seem little inclined, at the moment, to let her rest her talented legs so soon. Gwen's telephone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Devil's Disciple | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

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