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Should Dick have suspected that the baby was not his own-especially as he had been married to Kathy for only seven months? After all, the doctor, to protect Kathy, had said that the baby was premature. Then a nurse who was trying to woo Dick away from Kathy tipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SELLING: The Cleanup Man | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

The Hive tells no story. It "sets out to be ... a slice of life told step by step," and consists of short sketches, most of them only a page or so in length. Out of these hundreds of fragments, a world takes shape, peopled, according to the author's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Snapshots of Madrid | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

Nagged by the thought that he might become typed as a ventriloquist and some day go stale, Winchell began taking on straight acting roles ("I want to become so flexible that I just can't get into a rut"), today does a weekly seven-minute dramatic sketch midway in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Keeping Jerry in Line | 9/28/1953 | See Source »

At the farthest extreme of Europe, he committed the master symbol of the Romantic movement. "This morning," he exulted, "I swam from Sestos to Abydos." And then, being Byron, he saw the funny side of it: "The immediate distance [across the Hellespont] is not above a mile, but the current...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet on a Chain | 8/3/1953 | See Source »

As the man who launched this Point Four program singlehanded in Haiti, Jimmy Plinton, now 38, is famous. Everyone from President Paul Magloire (whose glittering uniforms Jimmy cleans) to a back-country peasant greets him with a smiling, "Allo, Jeemie!" Few Haitians can understand why a man as successful as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: The Dry-Cleaning Knight | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

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