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...wish Ike would wipe that eternal grin off his face and make a few enemies. McCarthy, for instance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 18, 1953 | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

...heavy deficits or buying football teams--a choice dictated first by the fact that Harvard's huge athletic plant can be maintained only if oiled by gate receipts (otherwise its cost cuts too deeply into the College's more important functions), and second, that lop-sided games all but wipe out those receipts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Penn's Choice | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

Incautiously, perhaps, he did more-sent a fire-breathing young special prosecutor named Nelson F. Stamler into Bergen County with orders to wipe it clean as a peeper's telescope on a summer evening. Last week-31 months later-this abnormal development was still having an intensely disturbing effect on the turgid currents of Jersey politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Grapefruit in the Garden State | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

Although the Pentagon has bungled once, it can avert further misunderstanding by making clear why the soldiers are questionable cases. A full report on each soldier will wipe out the harmful speculation, and clear the innocent of this insult of their integrity. Especially in the case of these prisoners, facts, not guesswork, should be the criteria for accusation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Army's U.S. Captives | 5/7/1953 | See Source »

...assembled rabbis and laymen had more than growth to be pleased about. In their own eyes, Reform has done much to wipe out the sense of deep separation from the rest of U.S. life which, they believe, long characterized the Jewish community. But recent years have seen a kind of reform of Reform-a movement away from a liberalism which was sometimes hardly distinguishable from Unitarianism. At last week's convention, Dr. Emanuel Gamoran, director of the Commission on Jewish Education, called for a deeper recognition of the Jewish past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Reforming Reform | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

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