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Many have turned to Labor's fastest-rising star and former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Gaitskell. -The Rivals. Oxford-bred Hugh Gaitskell, sharp-witted and sharp-tongued, was once considered too donnish for the workingman, but now at 49, he has become the right-wing trade unionists'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Time to Retire | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

The apocryphal John Harvard continued to contemplate his book last night, but the symbol of Ivy League superiority got little help from anti-Intellectual broom Jockeys who proved that nothing is sacred on All Hallow's Eve by planting a large and cynical pumpkin on top of the book that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Look On, Ye Mighty . . . | 11/1/1955 | See Source »

How could an old hand like Ehrenburg, who got a remarkable fan letter on the occasion of an earlier book ("I have enjoyed your novel very much.-J Stalin."), commit such a mistake? Well since Fan Stalin died, the word had got around somehow that it was all right to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Still Cold Inside | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

Cinemogul Samuel Goldwyn, interviewed on the eve of his 73rd birthday, abandoned his famed malapropisms in favor of some straight-spoken reminiscences. Recalling how he had teamed up with Jesse Lasky and Cecil B. DeMille to grind out Hollywood's first full-length feature film, The Squaw Man, in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 5, 1955 | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

"He Would've Been a Judge." Carmine De Sapio, the first Italo-American leader of Tammany Hall, understands only a few words of Italian (he recently sat next to an Italian diplomat at a dinner, listened politely for an hour, did not learn until later that he had accepted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A New Kind of Tiger | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

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