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...After roughing up a Pakistani umpire and bringing down the wrath of gentlemen sportsmen from London to Karachi, traveling cricketers from the Marylebone Cricket Club came home to England for an unprecedented scolding. For the first time in the history of the game a Marylebone captain drew a public reprimand for the conduct of his team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Apr. 2, 1956 | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

Barlach summed up his disgust with the first World War with his famed Avenger, whose headlong, sword-slashing figure was later to arouse Adolf Hitler's wrath. For a group of 16 figures commissioned for the Gothic niches of Liibeck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Modern Gothic | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

...well as cotton. He had even won a certain measure of fame for arrogant behavior as a member of the Internal Security Subcommittee-though nothing like the national attention he was to get later when his investigation of Communist influence on the U.S. press brought down upon him the wrath of the New York Times (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: The Authentic Voice | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

Last week, bending before Meany's wrath, Seattle's Dave Beck, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, directed Hoffa to take no further action on the I.L.A. alliance until it had been discussed by the teamsters' executive board in Honolulu this month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Leave It to Jimmy | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

...voluble, bright-eyed little Pope Pham Cong Tac was never able to resist meddling in secular matters. Tossing his 15,000-man army now on one side, now on the other in the delicate balance of Vietnamese politics, he succeeded only in incurring the wrath of his military Chief-of-Staff General Nguyen Thanh Phuong, who is now an avowed supporter of Premier-President Ngo Dinh Diem. "The time has come," said General Phuong one day last year, "for a good sweep of brooms down at the Holy See." The general surprised the Cao Daist "Vatican" at siesta time, disarmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: Pope Takes a Powder | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

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