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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...RAYBURN, 77, the 44th Speaker of the House, has held his office 14 years, far longer than any other man (Henry Clay, elected Speaker his first day, served ten years). Eighth of eleven children of a Confederate cavalryman, Rayburn comes from tough, Bible-reading ("Every bit of wisdom is written somewhere in that book") people, who scratched a living from 40 sun-baked acres of cotton at Bonham, Texas. Folks such as his family, he thinks, are the "real people," and his feeling for them forms the basis of his political liberalism. Since 1913 Rayburn has represented Texas' agricultural (cattle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: I Love This House | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

Retreat. Fortnight ago, the Tory brass of Bournemouth sank into deeper trouble. Major Friend, they learned, was in close cahoots with the League of Empire Loyalists, a quasi-fascist group that recently heckled Tory Prime Minister Harold Macmillan himself. Friend, it turned out, had written letters arranging that every time Nigel Nicolson tried to hold a meeting, the Loyalists would break it up with their heckling and roughhousing. Unhappily, the Bournemouth East Conservative Association accepted Major Friend's withdrawal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Randolph's Raid | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...name of pius Aeneas calls to mind that of the immortal poet (70-19 B.C.) of whom it was written: "To be a Christian in Vergil's day was like being a Communist today." Ah, well, perhaps it is the wave of the future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exam Blooopers | 1/28/1959 | See Source »

...closing blooper I have no comment to offer. It was written by a 'Cliffie, taking a test on Paradise Lost, and I quote: "After the Fall, of course, Eve found new ways to manipulate Adam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exam Blooopers | 1/28/1959 | See Source »

Anna Lucasta (Longridge; United Artists), in the course of its on-again, off-again success story, has suffered more color changes than a traffic light. As first written, back in 1936, Anna was a backstreets melodrama in which Playwright Philip Yordan rummaged among some white trash in a small town. The principal characters were poor Poles, and the heroine was described by one playgoer as "a sort of squarehead Camille." When the play, as written, failed to get a Broadway opening, Playwright Yordan remaindered the rights to the American Negro Theater. The white trash became black trash, and caught fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 26, 1959 | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

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