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Into the jaws of American commercial television last week flew Britain's suddenly famed runner, Roger Bannister, the world's first four-minute miler (TIME, May 17). But just as the jaws were about to snap tight, cables crackled across the Atlantic, Parliament rocked and anxious hands reached out to preserve Roger Bannister for purer things...
...cartoon on Stalin's death (see cut), CJ For news photography, Amateur Photographer Mrs. Walter M. Schau, first woman to win the prize. She was driving from her home in San Anselmo (Calif.), when she saw a truck about to fall from a bridge, managed to snap two remarkable pictures. One showed the driver scrambling up a rope to safety (TIME, May 15, 1953), while the other, a few seconds later, showed the cab of the truck crashing 70 ft. below...
...went to knight school. His name was Gawaine le Coeur-Hardy, but he was not very brave or even very bright. When the other students went to jousting class, Gawaine would hide in the woods. At last the headmaster gave up and told him to take the snap course in dragon-slaying. Gawaine was delighted, and spent the rest of his school days hacking at the model dragon on the south meadow. On commencement day, the headmaster gave Gawaine a magic word ("Rumplesnitz") and sent him forth to slay real live dragons. The very next day, Gawaine said the good...
...extended countrywide, would mean a Tory majority of 100 seats at a general election this fall. Such a majority, they reasoned, would let them slip away for dinner parties and evenings in West End theaters instead of being always on call, lest Labor outpoll the government on a snap vote...
Although newspaper stories filed from Turkey reported these flurries as "anti-Americanism," they were actually just politicking prior to the general elections in May. Anti-American feeling hardly exists in Turkey. Though they snap at each other, Turkey's two major parties agree, as President Bayar recently told a U.S. audience, that "private enterprise is the best system [for] rehabilitating a country that is economically backward...