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What indeed? For 417 pages, Margie is a virgin on the verge. Then, on the eve of Noel Airman's first Broadway opening, Lady Brett Ashley wins out over Shirley, in a Central Park South hotel room. This may well be the longest to-do over the loss of a girl's virginity since Richardson's Pamela. Says Wouk defensively: "Some people may get impatient and think, 'She's going to sleep with this guy, what's all the fuss?' But it's still a great suspense thing to a girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Wouk Mutiny | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...mistaking "institute for "introduce." In another series of pictures, the teacher may try to put across certain abstract concepts. A pupil will be asked to draw a ball beside, under or above another object; or, he may have to mark which line in a series is the longest. If he can't yet make such distinctions, he is not ready for the written word

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Why Johnny Can't/Can Read | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

...weird pagan god with two heads and eight arms sitting on a teakwood stand . . . A regular Japanese doll of a woman strolled into the foyer . . . Her feet were thrust into tiny gold slippers twinkling with jewels, and jade and ivory bracelets clattered on her arms. She had the longest fingernails I'd ever seen, each lacquered a delicate green. An almost endless bamboo cigarette holder hung languidly from her bright red mouth . . . There was a moment's silence. 'But darling,' she said dramatically, 'I'm your Auntie Mame!' She put her arms around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bestseller Revisited, Jul. 4, 1955 | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

...before, rowing upstream against an ebbing tide in Connecticut's Thames River, Yale's varsity eight held off a fine Harvard crew to win the oldest (since 1852) and longest (four miles) rowing competition in the U.S. On a two-mile course, Yale's freshman and jayvee crews completed a sweep of the river, first for the Elis since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Red Sweep | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

Tying for probably the longest distance covered are Dudley C. Lewis and family and Hart de Wit Wood. Both groups are from the Hawaiian Islands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumni Visit From Anchorage, Hawaii | 6/16/1955 | See Source »

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