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When it comes to spook literature, the English are still the best in the business, and this collection of short stories by Englishman John Collier is added proof of it. Unlike his fellow Englishman and spook specialist, Algernon Blackwood (TIME, Feb. 12), Collier does not deal in pure supernatural terror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spook Department | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

Such captions would look long-winded in today's New Yorker, but they were standard for its first jokes in 1925. Then Editor Harold Ross learned to trim the words and let the picture do its share. His one-line caption cartoons have set the style of U.S. humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: I Say It's Spinach | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

Dances at Davis or Scott liven up Saturday evenings, and such variety performances as the Rally Day show, take care of other nights. This year's show, "Quelques Chose", featured Charles Addams, Yale (though they liked the Harvardman's gift of the "Fruit of the month"), and a song whimsically...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smithites Seek Males, Fine Food on Weekend | 4/12/1951 | See Source »

Frankie Addams is a twelve-year-old girl who does not belong. To put it in her own words, delivered tremolo at the end of Act I, she doesn't have a "We" feeling about anybody--just her own "I" feeling. Her mother is dead, her father is wrapped to...

Author: By John R. W. small, | Title: The Playgoer | 3/30/1951 | See Source »

So she dreams of going away to live with her brother and his wife after they get married, of belonging with them, of becoming a member of their wedding. Her desire to belong shows in many ways: she wants to change her name to F. Jasmine Addams (Jarvis and Janice...

Author: By John R. W. small, | Title: The Playgoer | 3/30/1951 | See Source »

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