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...inspired, and away he rushed, as fast as his skinny little legs would carry him, down "the royal road to health and fitness." To the horror of his parents, the road seemed to be paved with Lsd. To the certain delight of millions of moviegoers, it has also been pot-holed by British Moviemakers Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder with some grand comic surprises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 29, 1956 | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

...upstairs lounge with its pool tables, reminder of the days when Leavitt's pot-bellied stove provided a club-room for smokers, was closed two years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leavitt and Peirce Changes Hands, but Old Traditions Stay | 10/27/1956 | See Source »

...University has long been famed for the great amount of individual freedom it grants. The University has also gained renown as a "melting pot" of nationalities. But when the two are combined, in the case of the foreign student, the result is often academic and social bewilderment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Foreign Student | 10/16/1956 | See Source »

Brooklyn's own poetess-laureate, Pulitzer Prizewinning Marianne Moore, 68, was moved to dash off a Hometown Piece, celebrating the Dodger baseball team and urging it to repeat its last year's glory in the World Series (see SPORT). Though a pot of doggerel in comparison to Poetess Moore's finest work, Piece was nonetheless a heartfelt exhortation and, according to Marianne, could even be warbled to the tune of an old folk song that sometimes begins, "Hush, li'l baby, don' say a word, mamma's gonna buy you a mockin'-bird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 15, 1956 | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

...person as the "I" of the novel, Malone hears a "vast continual buzzing" in his ears and lapses into a kind of catatonic trance, in which he dimly realizes that the nurse-attendant is no longer bringing his soup or emptying the chamber pot. Finally, in the everyman guise of a man named Macmann, the hero is beaten with a stick by an asylum attendant and eventually dies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Molten Gloom | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

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