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Remembered Suspicion. In the time-honored manner of fictional detectives, Sergeant Walters filed away his suspicions for future reference, finished his hitch in the army, and eventually joined the London police force. Early last summer, he learned that Sergeant Frederick Emmett-Dunne and the widow Watters had been married, seven months after Waiters' death. His suspicions were re-aroused; he took them over to army intelligence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Buddies | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

...Hour (Wed. 10 p.m., E.D.T.), which switched from ABC to CBS and began a new dramatic series with The Meanest Man in the World. It was a farce about a kind young man with a mean old father who demanded that the mortgage be foreclosed on a defenseless old widow and a deserted orphan on Christmas Eve. Much of the writing was pretty good, particularly when the father was teaching his son the first principles of meanness: "Nice guys don't win ball games . . . The road to failure is paved with kind hearts . . . The good die young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

Founded and financed by Mrs. William S. Ladd, widow of the dean of the Cornell Medical College, the institute was born none too soon. In the last 50 years, the number of people over 65 has increased twice as fast as the rate of the population in general; by 1950 they had reached the 12 million mark. Their pensions and savings cut by inflation, some face years of dependency. But more important is their feeling that they have outlived their usefulness. Last week, as the institute's second class got set to face the world again, its twelve members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Off the Shelf | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

Vassar & Vistas. A former social worker found that she is a painter; a college professor's widow took up the recorder; and a former Philadelphia schoolteacher 1) learned Speedwriting, 2) became an amateur naturalist, and 3) found she was pretty handy at woodworking. From early morning until cocktail time, in fact, the twelve scarcely had a moment's idleness. They took trips to the U.N., attended the experimental theater at nearby Vassar College, spent the evenings reading aloud from Lord Dunsany, Thornton Wilder and Edna St. Vincent Millay. One man's blood pressure dropped 30 points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Off the Shelf | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

Pigs & Rats. As had no other incident, the murder shocked France into a sense of urgency. Premier Faure was roused from bed at 3 a.m. in Paris to hear the news. Next morning he rushed off to see Lemaigre's widow, then summoned Pierre July. Minister for Tunisia and Morocco, for urgent consultation. Emerging from this meeting, July declared bluntly: "Counter-terrorism . . . once again has dishonored France." He sent France's No. 1 cop, Roger Wybot, to investigate the murder and reorganize Casablanca's police force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOROCCO: The Dangerous Middle | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

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