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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Never since Queen Victoria came to the throne more than a century ago," whooped London's Sunday Express, "has Britain been so buoyant, so prosperous." Britain's export boom broke new records in May, and came within a hairbreadth of bringing the long-coveted balance of trade. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Buoyant Britain | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

Britain sent 10½% of all its exports to the U.S. in the first five months of this year, 37% above last year. The biggest British export to the U.S. is autos, which account for 25%. Other exports range from tractors (doubled in the first quarter) through textile machinery (nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Buoyant Britain | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

That's Freedom. From the moment Fred realized he was in, he had only one thought: how to get out. One day he stole credentials belonging to a bunkroom buddy, went quietly over the hill and presented himself at a Trappist cloister under the first of his false identities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Superior Sort of Liar | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

Pure Rascality. After that, Demara promised himself to straighten out and make a new man of himself: Demara. But somehow it seemed terribly dull to be only one person at a time, and before long the unemployed impostor had another job. In the last two years he has had at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Superior Sort of Liar | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

Why does he go on? The psychiatrists have grandly labeled the lovable fraud a borderline schizophrenic with a document syndrome and something like histrionic genius. But Biographer Crichton is content to quote Demara without comment. On the psychology of imposture: "Every time I take a new identity, some part of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Superior Sort of Liar | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

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