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Public prostitution flourishes more conspicuously in London than it does in any other major capital in the world, providing a sight that U.S. tourists, expecting London to be staid and sedate, stare at in fascinated wonderment. From noon until the small hours of the morning, London's vast troop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Wolfenden Report | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

Although the Administration had worried through Congress a barely adequate $3,367,000,000 (about $500 million less than the Administration had originally requested) mutual-aid authorization bill, a whole new set of distress signals began flapping around the White House early in the week. In the legislative wonderland, "authorization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Gutting of Foreign Aid | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

¶ Provincetown, Mass., which thought it had seen its great days when Eugene O'Neill's players held forth at the Provincetown Playhouse and the Beachcombers' Club was packed with hairy-chested writers, has staged a postwar cultural comeback, is now an oasis of abstract painters, most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Place in the Sun | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

Newsman Caen (rhymes with rain) is probably the most loyally read local columnist in the U.S., and his formula-like San Francisco-is unique. "My job," says he, "is to make the legends come true.' While 15 other local columnists in the city's four dailies have come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Caliph of Baghdad | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

Up to the dingy College St.Joseph at Poitiers (pop. 52,633) last week rattled a dusty blue Renault bus. Three singers, a dancer, a pianist, an announcer and the driver got out, unloaded a few pieces of battered scenery and a stork's-nest snarl of electronic equipment. Inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pocket Opera | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

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