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...been in trouble with the law ever since he was a kid. In his teens, green-eyed, toughly handsome Eddie served time in two Connecticut jails for breaking & entering. During World War II he earned pretty good money as a skilled mechanic. But crime still seemed to him the easiest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Wanted | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

Most prefer to conform to some extent, to strike the balance between the individual tastes, and the Harvard stereotype. It is the easiest way to be yourself and yet not have to explain your actions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conservative Dress Favored Over Purple Shirts and Lime Trousers | 5/11/1950 | See Source »

Scoring its third consecutive 9 to 0 shutout, the Yardling tennis team defeated B.U. yesterday on the Terriers' courts. The victory was the easiest of the year for the freshmen, who took all but one of the matches in straight sets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Tennis Team Blanks B.U. in 3rd Straight Shutouts | 5/9/1950 | See Source »

Ever since her triumphant revolutionaries rewrote the constitution in 1917, Mexico has been one of the easiest places in the civilized world in which to get a divorce. About all a man had to do was to walk into court, tell his troubles to the judge, pay the necessary fees and wait for a clerk to fill out his certificate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Come & Get It | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

...First Night. "The jump," said one of the crew later, "was the easiest part." Eleven of the men landed in a twelve-square-mile area on the northwest shoulder of the desolate, storm-swept island. Most of them landed in trees, disentangled themselves from chute shrouds and branches and spent the first night wrapped in wet nylon or under inflated rubber dinghies taken from their parachute seat packs. Captain Barry, last to leave his stricken ship, came down in a shallow pond and spent the rest of the miserable night on the shore. Corporal Richard J. Schuler passed a wakeful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Abandon Ship | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

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