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...siren shrieked and a fire truck rattled past the speaker, slowing down to let four of Taft's 40 listeners jump on. "Maybe it's just a Democratic plot," said Taft dryly, and went on talking. Nothing stopped him, nothing could stop him short of a bolt of lightning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OHIO: Mr. Republican v. Mr. Nobody | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

This Russian cordiality mightily impressed a few reporters, who breathlessly watched every wrinkle on Russian faces and, like Sweet Alice, "wept with delight when you gave her a smile, and trembled with fear at your frown." Although Ben Bolt Vishinsky was smiling last week there was no evidence whatever of a real change in Soviet policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Nichevo Line | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

...summer of 1505 a man in Saxony was knocked flat by a bolt of lightning. "St. Anne help me!" he cried as he lay on the ground. "I will become a monk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Oak & the Ax | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

BESS SILVERSTONE for the girls of Sterling Bolt Co. Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 22, 1950 | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

...Bolt the Door. In the Sinclair version, Heroine Pamela Andrews is a prim, pretty, barefoot goat-girl, a devout Seventh Day Adventist who lives with her mother in a tarpaper shack in the California desert. One day in the 19205 a plush black limousine breaks down slap outside the Andrews home, and its owner, an idle-rich sponsor of radical causes named Margaret Harries, stops off long enough to whisk proletarian Pamela off to the vast Harries home as parlormaid. Here, Pam promptly runs into the path of Mrs. Harries' pampered, drunken, lecherous nephew, Charles. Like her 18th Century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Parody in Pink | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

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