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...Well," said his host, "I think you spent too much time describing Walter Price." (A practiced liar who went to Groton and Yale). "It seems as though he is your main character...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Visiting Novelist | 11/29/1957 | See Source »

...rather than in a saucer. But as the hoots grew louder, friends and colleagues joined ranks around the wiry, balding professor, father of four, community pillar, model of rectitude. Summarized his faculty dean: "Everyone is entitled to his own convictions, but nobody can make me believe Guimaraes is a liar or insane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cups or Saucers? | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

...civil rights, etc. In the grand tradition, criticism for the slump was being hung squarely around the shoulders of the manager. There were no suggestions that he be forthwith fired. But there were plenty of jeers and birdcalls from the stands and the boxes-"lame duck," "no brains," "lousy liar." When Ike met the press last week in the White House version of a clubhouse critique, newsmen quickly zeroed in on the defeats, the slurs, the possibility of change in line-up and tactics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Without Excuses | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

Bernard Shaw is having quite a week, for he had last night three different productions on the local boards. As the fourth event of the Harvard-MIT Summer Series, Kresge Auditorium was the scene of the formal world premiere of Dear Liar, "a play for two vioces" by Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Shaw Premiere | 8/1/1957 | See Source »

With such evidence stacked against his client, Lawyer Williams took great care in picking jurymen, ended up with a working-class panel of eight Negroes, four whites. Then he proceeded to paint an emotional, vivid-hued contrast between Cheasty and Hoffa. Cheasty, went the Williams defense, was a "liar" and an "informer"; Hoffa was a man who "fought many battles for labor" and "never betrayed a trust." Jimmy himself took the witness stand and, with Williams asking helpful questions, blandly testified that he had hired Cheasty solely as a lawyer to help represent teamsters under investigation. Not until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Out of the Trap | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

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