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Toby Green put down the phone and wept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRISONS: The Siege of Cherry Hill | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...much like an animated teacozy that the audience snickered. Only Roberta Peters' pearly coloratura and pert presence were thoroughly pleasant. But for Marian Anderson the evening was a soaring personal triumph. There were eight curtain calls. "Anderson! Anderson!" chanted the standees, and men and women in the audience wept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Debut | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

...Joye in her diary: "I can't weep any more, and my lair would be snow-white if I didn't dye it." She dreaded giving up Paul, but she could not resist claiming Ernstli. After the boys were switched back to their real mothers, Ernstli wept for days, but soon stopped addressing Mrs. Joye as "Madame" and started calling her "Maman." Mrs. Joye's unpretentious account is bound to give imaginative parents plenty to think about next time they take a baby home from the maternity ward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Babies, Scandal & Apples | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

...shouldered young man whose machine-knitted jersey celebrated a leaping swordfish. then by a pretty young Negro woman in her best clothes with a sleeping baby in her arms. Suddenly there were too many to count, standing on the trampled grass in the blaze of lights. Some of them wept quietly, some of them stared at the ground and some looked upward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The New Evangelist | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

...only enlivenment was the appearance of the 19-year-old Dalai Lama, escorted out of Tibet by a Red general three weeks ago as thousands of his subjects wept and prostrated themselves. His presence was quite a coup: the Dalai Lama is a living God to his own people. Several years ago. uncertain of the Dalai Lama's loyalty, the Communists began to groom the exiled Panchen Lama as a rival. He is the spiritual leader of Lamaism, as the Dalai is the temporal head. Last week both the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Parody in Peking | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

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