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...Springdale, Ala., was talking to his girl friend on the road in front of her home one night last week when six hooded men drove up, stopped, jumped out, grabbed Aaron and stuffed him into their car. The men took Aaron to a deserted shack, castrated him with razor blades and then poured turpentine into 'the wound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Klan in Alabama | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

...fast that she was picked up for speeding. But apart from a damaged windshield, her Jag was still in good condition. Geordie finished far up in the overall standings (behind five Volkswagens), easily earned her three prizes, and went home with $1,215 plus assorted trophies, including an electric razor and a supply of stockings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Trial by Trouble | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

...Negroes who serve Brocton's first families and are treated by them as near equals precisely because they make no unseemly claims to equality, e.g., in Arthur Winner's church, the Negro sexton deferentially takes communion last. Racially barbed is Cozzens' depiction of Eliot Woolf, a razor-sharp New York lawyer and a Jew-turned-Episcopalian whose "astute smelling-out of every little advantage . . . outside due process" makes Arthur Winner slightly queasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hermit of Lambertville | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

...many falls in that mad dash to lower the set as soon as the commercial came on. Maybe somewhere in the country there is a viewer who reacts to that sudden rush of sound by saying, 'Darling, do watch this, isn't it fantastic what that razor will do to the hidden beard?' Maybe . . . but if they have to get up and lower the volume, someone in the room is going to say, 'Listen, while you're on your feet, see what Steve Allen is doing, or better still, turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Collector's Item | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

Football's College All-Stars bounced into Chicago's Soldier Field last week with a herd of the swiftest, smartest players in years. Almost all were high on the professional league's draft lists. All were razor-keen after three hard weeks training under old Pro Coach Curley Lambeau. Their high hope: to pass the champion New York Giants silly and wow their new pro employers. Then it began to rain, rain, rain down through the stadium lights, and 75,000 spectators saw the rookies' annual blooding work toward a familiar ending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Night School | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

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