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...latest outbursts of racial violence in the South have filled me with shame and disgust. This mob violence and mass hysteria has no justification and to poison the minds of children with hatred and bigotry is nothing less than atrocious! Instead of hanging effigies, these mobs should hang their heads in shame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 24, 1956 | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

That is the record to which Truman and Stevenson are pointing accusing fingers. The instances of wrongdoing in the Truman Administration cannot be similarly isolated; they come as a flow of names in a record of corruption that threatened to poison the entire U.S. Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tke CORRUPTION ISSUE: A Pandora's Box | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

...week's end neither Scotland Yard nor the newspapers had reported a single actual crime or victim, or any evidence to decide the question posed by one tabloid: "Mass murderer or vicious poison pen?" But the story had produced some evidence about British journalism. Most Britons and some Americans believe that the country's rigid press laws are superior to U.S. standards. Yet the laws have bred a technique of trumpeting sensation with small regard to facts. The very inability to name a suspect emboldens editors to print gossip and rumor about what he may have done. Whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: British Mystery Story | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

...about ordinary people against whom I have no rancor? I find people attractive. So they have to be gulled. Somebody's selling and everybody's gullible." To make his point, Levine has one well-curved doxie hold up a sign reading VELENO, Italian for poison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Poison in the Sky | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

Professional Touch. In Storrs, Conn., after hunting a golf ball in a poison-ivy patch and getting a severe case of poisoning on both arms, Dr. Harriet Creighton swallowed her pride, presided as scheduled over the golden jubilee meeting of the Botanical Society of America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 17, 1956 | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

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