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...professional bondsman. Freddic Carbonne will help ya if anybody can. He only charges ten dollars. Lock him up, Al, put him in with that drunk, Sorry, kid, rules of the house, you know...

Author: By H. E. Edmunds, | Title: Riot in Cell 28 | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...Louisville last week, old (76) Alben Barkley stood up before a milkmen's meeting and pointed out that Winston Churchill is now 79, that Cato studied Greek at 82 and that Oliver Wendell Holmes resigned from the U.S. Supreme Court at 91. Burbled Barkley: "I feel like a kid." In Illinois, U.S. Senator Paul Douglas was roaming the countryside being folksy with farmers, militant with miners, professorial with college groups and hearty with luncheon clubs. All across the U.S., the politicians, like bees in a hive warmed by the spring sun, were beginning to stir and buzz. The reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE FIGHT FOR CONGRESS | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

...Immoralist (adapted by Ruth & Augustus Goetz from Andre Gide's novel) is perhaps the most outspoken treatment of homosexuality that Broadway has seen. Very likely it is also the most serious and dignified. Though treating nothing prissily with kid gloves, Playwrights Goetz treat everything clinically with rubber ones. Unlike Gide's spiritually autobiographical novel, the play is less the study of a man than the story of a marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Feb. 22, 1954 | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

...Illinois track coach, Leo Johnson, took a dim view of the furor. He announced that the whole trick was illegal by track standards for two reasons: 1) "the kid hasn't been able to clear anything yet off one foot," and 2) "It is a violation of the spirit of the rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: How High Is a High Jump? | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

...kept . . . cool." Was Al's tension all right? "You bet your life it was. As long as I was payin' so much for the checkup, I listened to every woid he said . . . The most disappointin' part . . . was when he finished and said: 'Come on, kid, you've had that checkup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: What a Built! | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

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