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The buildings themselves have peculiar vagaries. Men who have patrolled the University Museum agree that the creaking floors, groaning walls, and rattling windows, to say nothing of the anthropological exhibits, can give them the jitters. Alex Strugis admitted that he "can't help feeling creepy walking past the mummies on...

Author: By Peter V. Shackter, | Title: Nightmen Guard College Despite Spooks, Pranks | 3/10/1954 | See Source »

"Squads of local salesmen from the Washington area called in person at Weeks's office and left their lavishly illustrated '54 sales brochures. Wrote one man on the calling card he left with a Buick folder: 'After reading the TIME article, I decided to conduct a personal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 22, 1954 | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

Big Game. At Volkswagen, Nordhoff is paid modestly by U.S. standards (about $25,000 a year). He has long since moved off his office cot and into a modern Wolfsburg house, supplied by the Volkswagen company, where his wife and two grown daughters live in a manner not much different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Comeback in the West | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

On the night of Sept. 23, 1952, I was one of the many Americans who listened to Richard Nixon's "Checkers" speech. I was so impressed by his sincere manner that I immediately wired the Republican National Committee to retain Mr. Nixon as vice-presidential candidate. I believe my...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 8, 1954 | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

For more than a week, Guatemalan anti-Communists had been mysteriously disappearing into jail, scrambling to asylum in embassies, hopping over the border. Was there a rebellious plot afoot? Not at all, said the Red-wired government soothingly. Then, at the end of last week, the government swung all the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Plot Within a Plot | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

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