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THE Malraux story was written by Associate Editor A. T. Baker. The portrait was painted by Russian born, Brooklyn-reared Ben Shahn. It is the second work by a new cover artist to appear on TIME in the last few months; Aaron Bohrod did the Governor Knight cover for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publisher's Letter, Jul. 18, 1955 | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

Represented by tireless and ingenious lawyers, the Reader's Digest Killers (as they came to be known), ran through the whole book of the law, got nine stays of execution. One of their appeals was based on a paragraph in a Reader's Digest article which told how...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Whole Book | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

Telltale Ripples. In all the fleet that edged past Execution Rocks Light and set out for Block Island, no skipper had lavished more care on his predicted log than two-time Race Winner Dr. Allen B. Du Mont, 54, in his 54-ft. Trumpy-built cruiser Hurricane III. An engineer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: As Predicted | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

Porpoises played off the port beam of Hurricane III on the first leg. Under the muggy mist there was no breeze, and beyond Execution Rocks the boat passed no buoys where Skipper Du Mont could check for the telltale ripples that would help him estimate the tide. Still, he had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: As Predicted | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

Every now and then, the Utah state legislature gets around to discussing whether the firing squad is backward and barbaric; the new state prison, erected in 1950, laid aside space that could do equally well for high voltage or for gas. In its 1955 session, the legislature passed a bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTAH: Tales of the Firing Squad | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

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