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As it is, the works and pomps which Glenn McCarthy has raised in honor of McCarthy have taken a more solid form. There is McCarthy's Houston mansion, a white-pillared, $700,000 pile surrounded by vast lawns and trees bearded with Spanish moss. There is the 15,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: King of the Wildcatters | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

Nevertheless, by last week underdog Argosy was barking on True's trail, as if it were about to bite. Argosy Editor Jerry Mason, 36, claimed that his January issue had topped the 1,000,000 mark in sales (the guarantee: 750,000). Like True, Argosy was once a pulp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Man's World | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

*By 1947 the pure-blooded Indian population of Tierra del Fuego numbered less than 150. The white population, principally engaged in sheep-raising, had grown to over 10,000.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ona-Land | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

Quivering Nostrils. Lafcadio Hearn was a sight to see, and he knew it. One eye was blind and covered with a milky film; the other was "myopic and protruding, so that it looked like the single eye of an octopus." A short (5 ft. 3), slight man with a scraggly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Passionate Pilgrim | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

In South Carolina, it is unpardonable for a red-blooded citizen to be neutral on Big Thursday. On that momentous day, by decree of state law and with the State Fair as a backdrop, Clemson College (enrollment 3,200) fights it out on the football field with the University of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Thursday | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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