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When I was fourteen and a collector of comic books in New York, I used to go downtown to a dirty loft its owners called The Memory Shop to trade early Batman comics for early Dick Tracy with a tough truck driver from St. Louis who fell by every month...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: Midsummer Night's Dream | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

CONSIDER the human machine in middle age: atrociously maintained, rusty from disuse. None of its parts-the bellows, the tubes, the pump-function as efficiently as they once did. The muscles have degenerated into blancmange. If, in an emergency, the demand for air rises abruptly from the idling requirement of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: DON'T JUST SIT THERE; WALK, JOG, RUN | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

The demonology of the Navajo tribe is fraught with imaginary horrors. On the escarpments of the San Juan Mountains once lived a monster called Kicking-off-the-Rocks, who did just that to travelers. Nearby dwelt a giant named Ye'iitseh, with a mouth like an inverted bellows, who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Deadly Windfall | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

Throughout the play, letters, money, and clothing are destroyed, thrown carelessly on the stage where pieces remain for the duration of an act, becoming part of Fisk's legacy. Fisk reacts to his first financial triumph by destroying his Jersey City hotel room. The scene is reminiscent of Charles Foster...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: Prince Erie | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

The loss of Robertson would have been damaging to the Crimson's hopes of defeating Cornell this Saturday at Ithaca. The lanky junior's replacement, sophomore Bill Bellows who did a competent job filling in for the second half last weekend, broke his collar-bone Monday in practice and will...

Author: By Andrew Jamison, | Title: Robertson, Crimson Left Wing, Announced Fit to Play Soccer | 10/18/1967 | See Source »

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