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...governor of a state where I don't intend for federal troops to ever march," throbbed Tennessee's Governor Frank Goad Clement, tears welling out of his eyes. "Law and order in Tennessee will be preserved for Tennesseans. Is a bayonet going to be the bookmark of Southern education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: The Prick of the Bayonet | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

...told the first drove of reporters. But to Einstein's lasting astonishment, Americans were ready to idolize the shy professor with the eccentric look and demeanor that connoted "Genius." They read with fascination that money bored him (once he used a $1,500 check as a bookmark, then lost the book), that he was absent-minded (he once walked into the salon of a transatlantic liner wearing his pajamas), that his second wife, Elsa, once ate the orchids on her plate at a formal banquet, mistaking them for the salad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Death of a Genius | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...words on her bookmark are perhaps her most memorable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Busy Mystic | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

Brain Food. In Kalamazoo, Librarian Lillian Anderson opened a returned book, withdrew the bookmark - a dried fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 13, 1944 | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

...Goldberg's recent serious side: political cartoons he has drawn for the New York Sun since 1938. But though some are effective, Goldberg fans spent the most time with such famed Goldbergiana as the Boob McNutt series, Lala Palooza, and Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts, who demonstrates his Simple Bookmark, operated by the lifting of reading glasses, which releases a flock of moths who eat a woolen sock which drops a tear-gas bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mr. Goldberg at Mr. Morgan's | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

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