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...picture came to the Ashland (Ky.) Daily Independent (circ. 15,512) last August from Mrs. G. E. Dobbins, a reader. It showed two bombers flying in a cloudy sky. Clear as could be in the foreground was a likeness of Christ, hands outstretched in a gesture of peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Mysterious Picture | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

...paratroopers cut the Viet Minh communications wire, captured a Viet Minh convoy on its way northward with salt. But they found Hoa Binh burned-out and deserted. The only local inhabitant to meet them was pretty 25-year-old Nguyen Thi Ky. Her arms loaded with silver bracelets, her teeth painted an artistic black, she nervously approached the paratroopers, holding out an old laissez passer bearing General de Lattre's picture. When Nguyen Thi Ky explained that she had known a French officer in Hoa Binh in the good old days and would like to renew the acquaintanceship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF INDO-CHINA: Severing an Artery | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...mind, but he landed, nonetheless, right in the middle of the biggest question of domestic politics: Is Ike a candidate for President in 1952? Reporters asked it as he landed at New York's Mitchel Field, asked it again when he greeted his grandchildren at Fort Knox, Ky., and asked it every time he turned around in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Question of Ike | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

Oldtime Religion. In Owensboro, Ky., Wesley Ezell, 38, was fined $2 and $11.50 court costs under an old law forbidding "willfully and wrongfully working on the Christian Sabbath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 12, 1951 | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

...Joseph F.Gastright of Newport, Ky. was judged to be sound of mind after a lunacy hearing before a circuit court jury-a decision which not only gave him his freedom, but pleased 36,000 people who voted for him as Kentucky's secretary of state while he was in a mental hospital. ¶ FBI agents discovered that an excuse which 14-year-old Patsy Whiting of Green Bay, Wis. brought to school to explain a day's absence was incorrect. Patsy hadn't had a cold at all; she had ridden to Laona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

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