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...runs in all, and Rice made a fourth touchdown in the final quarter on a 75-yd. sustained drive. Alabama lost to Rice, 28-6. Fiery Fullback Lewis apologized to Rice's Moegle for his moment of aberration. Dick Moegle grinned and said, "Forget it." Tommy Lewis, who wept unashamedly in the dressing room, moaned: "I don't think I'll ever get over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Alabama's Twelfth Man | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

...hour to make sure the parents were dead. Then they put the third champagne glass into a paper sack, broke it, and departed, dropping the fragments into a sewer on their way. Two days later, Harlow came back to the apartment, found the bodies, called the police and wept hysterically at his parents' "suicides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Champagne & Cyanide | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

...killed Lebanon's first and greatest Premier, brilliant, little Riad el Solh (TIME, July 30, 1951), distressed the generous heart of old Ibn Saud, autocrat of Saudi Arabia. The old lion of the desert could always count on an ally when El Solh was representing Lebanon. Ibn Saud wept and vowed to look after his old friend's widow and four daughters. Tragically in the patriarchal Arab world, El Solh died without leaving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAUDI ARABIA: Western Woman | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

...pictured Christmas as it used to be in the Old World, with huge copies of German, Austrian and Italian toys. In Washington, Woodward & Lothrop brought to life The Night Before Christmas, with sleeping children, animated sugar plums, Santa and his prancing steeds. In Denver, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer wept giant tears at Daniels and Fisher Stores Co., and the May Department Stores Co. built Santa's toy factory for the city's youngsters. At Detroit's J. L. Hudson Co., a delightful doll named Christmas Carol clutched a candy-striped Teddy bear on her visit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Santa under Glass | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

...Rome one day this week. Once he would have ridden on a white mule, but in 1953 he went in a black Cadillac. Crowds jammed the lovely, narrow streets of the city of Augustus, of St. Peter, of Garibaldi, of Comrade Togliatti. The cheers shook the ancient stones. Women wept. Children, perching on their fathers' shoulders, waved and repeated the shout they heard all about them: "Viva il Papa, Viva il Papa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Urbi et Orbi | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

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