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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AGAIN ! the headlines shouted one day last January, and millions of readers pounced on the latest chapter in the amazing adventures of Ferdinand Waldo ("Fred") Demara Jr., the most spectacular impostor of modern times. A sick, brilliant, 37-year-old alter-egotist who never finished high school, Demara by main nerve and native intelligence has carried off careers as military surgeon, psychology professor, cancer researcher, dean of a school of philosophy, language teacher, law student, assistant prison warden, Trappist monk and the devil knows what else (TIME, Dec. 3, 1951; Feb. 25, 1957). Perhaps the most astonishing thing about this...

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

Adenauer admitted he had had some adverse mail himself; his favorite postcard, he chuckled, bore only three words: "Sie alter Gauner [You old scoundrel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: How to Win | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...CANADA Alter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Alter Ego | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...intimate to take Canada's foreign affairs portfolio. The new Minister is Howard Charles Green, a Conservative Member of Parliament since 1935 and-since the 1957 Tory victory-leader of the House, Minister of Public Works, and deputy Prime Minister. Three times he served as Diefenbaker's alter ego when the P.M. was abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Alter Ego | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...claim for the Presbyterian and Reformed Churches we would lay on the altar. We offer it all to our fellow Christians for whatever use it may be to the whole Church. With the whole Church we hold ourselves alert for the surprises with which the Lord of history can alter the tempo of our renewal, and for the new forms with which an eternally recreating God can startle us while he secures his Church. And we strain ahead toward the great day when the richness of our joined memories will be a small sign of the strength of our conjoined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Great Reformer | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

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