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...would be interesting to note, I believe, how long you and your Negro-loving Yankees would yell for civil rights if they outnumbered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...work, hiking and collecting the works of George Meredith, Killian has been Compton's right hand for nine years, M.I.T.'s vice president for the last five. Most M.I.T. students think they have to study hard enough already ("Tech is hell! Tech is hell!" says the school yell), but Killian hopes to add to their academic burdens more civilizing courses in liberal arts. Also, says Killian solemnly, "A little gaiety might be appropriate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: One Touch of Gaiety | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...week, he was the old Ernie Bevin again, the great commoner who-when Russia first threatened to sink U.N. 2½ years ago-had lifted U.N. above its fears. He was the same Bevin who, as labor leader and as war leader, had learned how to get up and yell for freedom. His speech embodied the West's great and simple moral cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Story of a Cause | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...disturbance was not squelched. Directly under the rostrum, Chicago Boss Jake Arvey and Adlai Stevenson, candidate for governor of Illinois, continued to yell at the chair. California's hulking Chairman Jack Shelley, an ex-University of San Francisco football tackle, plunged up the aisle to the platform, roaring for recognition. They all wanted it to be announced that their delegations had voted against Mississippi. On the platform Shelley barked into the ear of Sergeant at Arms Leslie Biffle: "You'd better not cut the mikes on us tomorrow when we start talking on civil rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Line Squall | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...necessary, old words have been changed for new. Recks not his own rede becomes Minds not his own creed. In all, there are 25 such changes. Some are debatable, but the principle is sound. It is equally sound, of course, to cut the text. There are purists who will yell bloody murder at the very idea that Shakespeare can possibly be "improved" on in any way at all. Nonetheless, Olivier has treated him to some shrewd editing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Olivier's Hamlet | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

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