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But a one-nighter which opened yesterday could bring up some ugly doubts. John Burrell, leading figure in the Old Vic and indeed all of British theatre, gave this year's Theodore Spencer lecture. Of the less than 80 people huddled together to hear him, surprisingly few were those familiar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Lonely Crowd | 4/15/1954 | See Source »

But the anti-intellectual forces of Cambridge have bumbled onto a devise that could sap the will to resist and the fighting edge of Harvard's academic flower. A signal light now stops traffic at the corner of Massachusetts and Holyoke. The calculating city council, which has its own supply...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lighting the Way | 3/20/1954 | See Source »

Some 250 Vigilant Women for the Bricker Amendment gathered in Washington, shook their heads sadly as Mrs. Robert Vogeler (wife of the freed prisoner of the Hungarian Reds) cried: "Men who serve their country now have fewer rights than men who betray it." Another orator made the Vigilant Women fairly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Gold-Bricker | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

Two days later. President Eisenhower announced in Augusta that the U.S. will soon bring home two divisions (some 32,000 men plus support troops) of its six Army divisions from Korea as a first step in the gradual reduction of its ground forces there. The withdrawal, said Eisenhower, was further...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: New Strategy | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

On many occasions, long before the sirens sounded, the drake gave warning of an air raid, flapping its wings and quacking. On Nov. 27, 1944 the vigilant Freiburg drake began cackling and would not stop. Freiburgers dived for their cellars although no warning had been given, and they got there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: The Drake of Freiburg | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

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