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...volumes, The Most Haunted House in England and The End of Borley Rectory, soon dispelled them. Even Sir Ernest Jelf, Senior Master of His Majesty's Supreme Court, examined Price's evidence and confessed himself "at a loss to understand what cross-examination could possibly shake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Ghosts of Borley | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

...most encouraging signs in the game was the Crimson's ability to shake its habitual first-period blues. The varsity dominated the play in the opening stanza by displaying inspired team-work in both its forward passing and tireless backchecking...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: BC Wins Beanpot With 4-2 Decision Over Varsity Six | 2/9/1956 | See Source »

Expressions like "A continuing sort of oneupmanship" LJan. 9] make the average TIME reader backtrack, ponder, and shake or scratch his head. "Oneupmanship" is not even to be found in a golfer's vocabulary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 6, 1956 | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...Governor invited the leaders of the demonstrators into his office "to shake my hand if you want to." On hand in his office the well-prepared Clement had two Protestant ministers, a Catholic priest, a Jewish rabbi and a score of reporters and TV cameramen. The demonstrators were put off balance when Clement commenced the proceedings with "a word of prayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Encounter at Nashville | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...Truman tax scandals, a star performer was chunky, sleek Abraham Teitelbaum, a Chicago lawyer whose clients included the late Al Capone. To a House subcommittee. Teitelbaum shrilled out a fantastic story of how two men had tried to shake him down for $500,000. The "or else": he'd get into "bad tax trouble" if he didn't pay. Last week in Chicago, a federal court jury found him guilty of evading $135,060 in income taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEQUELS: Capone's Lawyer | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

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