Word: falling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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TIME'S weekly editorial deadline is Monday night and was not designed for full coverage of national elections, which always fall on a Tuesday. To meet this situation, two pages of National Affairs were left open when the rest of this issue was closed on Monday night. By 4 a.m. Wednesday a special staff of editors, writers and researchers was on hand to write the election stories...
...students had already begun to adopt some adult prejudices. Jews and gentiles "dated" almost exclusively within their own groups. The board, and some parents, thought that gentile students were lonely and unhappy in classes where they sometimes were a minority of two or three out of 30. This fall the board produced a strange solution...
Died. George Bernard Shaw, 94, genius, playwright, wit, critic, Irishman, unsocial Socialist; of complications following a fall; in Ayot St. Lawrence, England...
What happened to Halliday on his journey East is the burden of Budd Schulberg's third and best novel, The Disenchanted. As in What Makes Sammy Run? and The Harder They Fall, Schulberg has borrowed the handy, ready-to-wear drape-shape of the thriller to dress up his story. He has filled that shoddy garment with a human being whose words and acts carry a raw, boozy reek of vitality. Manley Halliday is one of the few credible portraits of a writer in recent U.S. fiction...
...Larz Anderson Bridge and Soldiers Field will seem strangely deserted this afternoon during the football team's only game away of the fall, but few students from Cambridge appear to be making the trip to New Jersey, in comparison...