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...neck muscles would not have become tense, and turned the blade. Influence and nerve got him back into action. Within seven months he was sent to India, where a demoralized British army was still reeling from the loss of Burma. Wearing his accustomed sun helmet and a biblical beard, Wingate developed his theory of "long-range penetration groups" to operate behind the Japanese lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lion of Burma | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...mercy of a nameless army of self-annihilators, men who kill with an almost sexual relish because they are secretly in love with death? In The War Lover (an October Book-of-the-Month Club choice), Novelist John Hersey (The Wall, A Single Pebble) has apparently sworn by the beard of Freud to bed Mars on the analyst's couch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Love with Death | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...almost sinister magnificence. His crews believe that "he sold himself to the devil in Zanzibar, and can divine water, spot gold, explode a cartridge in your pocket with a glance of his eye, and see the truth hidden in the heart of men." Made up with a white beard in a wretchedly unsuccessful attempt to look like G.B.S., "Mr. Evans' Captain," as A. E. Watts acutely notices in the Traveler, "is a cute old rascal who encourages some people in thinking he is whoopsy...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Heartbreak House | 10/1/1959 | See Source »

Mortimer's beard stroked his palm. "I can't even hide out at the hungry i. Everyone, including Sheila Graham and the Kingston Trio will...

Author: By Margaret A. Armstrong, | Title: The Crowded Lonely | 9/30/1959 | See Source »

...hell of a note to come back to school on. On top of picking classes, I have to lose my whole way of existence to the masses and their media. It has become painful to be seen in sneakers unless you are carrying a basketball. Keep your beard and some little Cliffie thinks it calls for a humorous comment...

Author: By Margaret A. Armstrong, | Title: The Crowded Lonely | 9/30/1959 | See Source »

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