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Annemarie Hammer of Heidelberg, Germany was frankly perplexed. To the editors of Heute, a U.S.-sponsored, LIFE-like magazine, she wrote: "I don't see how this is possible. Won't you please print the answer to the puzzle?" What baffled her was a reprint of Charles Addams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Puzzle | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

In the sultry Georgia kitchen, Berenice Sadie Brown, the Negro cook, was dealing greasy cards. Berenice, an experienced woman, had had four husbands. One of her eyes was made of blue glass (husband No. 4 in a fit of temper had gouged out the original). John Henry West, who was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The End of F. Jasmine Addams | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

Frankie is the pawky, gawky heroine of Carson McCullers' slim (195-page) new novel-she calls it a novella. Unlike Novelist McCullers' earlier books (The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Reflections in a Golden Eye), which were well filled with the complex, morbid relationships of adults, The Member...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The End of F. Jasmine Addams | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

But the last, long-drawn-out day of Frankie's childhood is highlighted not by a picture show, but by one of the few dramatic incidents in the novel-Frankie's narrow escape from a drunken soldier. The rest of The Member of the Wedding is devoted to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The End of F. Jasmine Addams | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

His long public career began in Chicago, where he worked his way through the University of Chicago, had a try at journalism, got a law degree, hung out his shingle and became an apostle of reform. He was freed from the need of working for a living when he married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Exit Honest Harold | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

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