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...fall term of the county court. Many were unshaven. Their faces were criss crossed with the wounds of weather. They wore battered hats, carried pistols in their pockets. They sold their tin cans filled with rich sorghum molasses, swapped shotguns, powder horns and hunting dogs, bought snake oil, ax handles and buckets of yams. Into their midst walked the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, a man with the alliterative name of Wilson Watkins Wyatt. "I'm Wilson Wyatt,'' he said, as he handshook his way through the hillmen. "I'm Wilson Wyatt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kentucky: The City Slickers | 10/26/1962 | See Source »

Erotic Gadgets. Ahmad governed by means of spies, subsidies and the executioner's ax, decapitating more than a thousand enemies. He was a man of enormous appetite: he would do away with an entire roast lamb at a single sitting and then gulp down a pound of honey as a between-meals snack. He had three wives and 40 concubines, but in the last years of his life his potency declined, and he had unsuccessful recourse to rejuvenation treatments by a Swiss doctor. His luckless harem consoled itself with sorties into lesbianism and erotic gadgets sent from Japan. Like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yemen: Arabia Felix | 10/26/1962 | See Source »

...remember the color of her eyes. I'd like to forget her com pletely." "If you ask me if I have had a happy life, I must say no. I have had an extremely unhappy life." Withal, the unkind years have merely honed the battle-ax wit of England's oddball poetess Dame Edith Sitwell, who, upon turning 75, looked ahead to her official birthday celebration at London's Festival Hall next month. There, she insists, she will appear baroquely bedecked in a red velvet gown, black-and-gold turban and massive gold necklace. She then manned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 14, 1962 | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

...regaining big-power status, and villainous cartoon-capitalists from a giant international cartel get into the act. By now, the irascible Dr. Fleming is screaming that the machine is engaged in the "slow subjugation of the planet." When no one listens, Fleming attacks the machine itself with an ax. And the parthenogenetic blonde dies because she has been taught everything-except how to swim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Sinkable Blonde | 7/6/1962 | See Source »

...over, Washington returns to his own camp, organizes a raid on the enemy, then takes a nap and dreams of the time his father gave him an uprooted cherry tree for his birthday. The action here is illustrated by a cherry tree, a birthday cake, a shovel, an ax, and a sign saying, THE DREAM OF GEORGE WASHINGTON. In the Koch-Katz version, Father Washington persuades his son to accept the dirty old tree. He plants it for the boy only to have little George chop it down and run away. But how does George make his escape? By swimming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cutout Cutups | 6/22/1962 | See Source »

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