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So the record runs from the simple words of a Sudetenland farm boy condemned to death because he refused to join the SS to the Latin prayers of a Jesuit like Alfred Delp, who called his prison a "kindergarten of death." Delp's greatest gratitude was that once he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fifty-Seven Martyrs | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

A schoolteacher who is tireless, vigilant and indifferent to big red apples was on exhibit at London's Physical Society. The teacher is electronic and the creation of two young Cambridge scientists, Physicist McKinnon ) Wood and Psychologist Gordon Pask, under contract with Solartron Electronic Group Ltd. Designed for teaching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Electronic Schoolteacher | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

Poujadisms (uttered genially, sentences punctuated with roars of laughter): "We want to put new blood into our Republican institutions. You wouldn't have to blow very hard right now to overturn them ... If France had been governed by an honest group of men, this movement would not exist today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: POUJADE of the POUJADISTS | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

When he arrived in Washington at week's end, Majority Leader Johnson had a daily routine planned to hold down the strain on his own heart. He had not been on the Senate floor since he suffered a severe attack in July; he plans to stay there for only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Nub: Politics | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

Artists and Models (Hal Wallis; Paramount) is an alarming example of what can happen when a picture is remade too often. No matter how vigilant the studio, slight changes creep into each new version, until at last some producer makes a movie that is almost original. In this film, for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Double Trouble | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

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