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...declared that the dust had settled long enough in Asia. Roared McCarran: "I am quite familiar with the doctrine of those desk-bound intellectuals who got all mixed up, those gentlemen who would probably describe Al Capone as the product of an unhappy childhood, those gentlemen who saw a boil on China's neck and called in the executioner with his ax, thinking he was a surgeon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Blood on Whose Hands? | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

...Princeton, Ring Jr. began to boil too, and higher than his father ever did. He joined the Socialist Club, wangled a trip to Russia as an exchange student. A friend got him a job in Hollywood. Ring ground out B pictures, and busied himself with organizing the Screen Writers' Guild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDEOLOGIES: Ring & the Proletariat | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

...small locust tree the thickness of a man's arm, and six hours later the tree was dead. Farther north, some Indians buried a white man, standing, with only his head above ground, scalped him and lit a fire close by. The heat made his brains boil and started his eyes gushing out of their sockets. In Casco Bay, Me., a merman tried to board a hunter's boat, had a "hand chopped off and sank, purpling the water with his inhuman blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Behind the Looking Glass | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

Bear Oil & Snow Caps. Bear oil is best for frying trout. Better still, boil the fish for a couple of minutes, remove the skin, head and bones, season and butter it, then broil. But Douglas saves his warmest eulogies for blue jays fried in butter: "The best meat I ever had in the hills." He was in a more philosophical mood the day he stood on top of Darling Mountain and felt "a challenge to explore each ridge and valley, to climb each snow-capped peak, to sleep in each high basin, to sample the berries and fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Mountains Are Good For | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

...little that was new. But by the old newspaper trick of totaling up past gangster shootings and policy wars, Lowall gave the impression that Dallas was a racket-ridden city. His scary conclusion: "A hellbroth of mobster violence and derision for the law is seething" in Dallas and may "boil oyer any time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Turnabout | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

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