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The hero of his book is a 1 ft. 4 in. lizard named Frut, a happy-go-lucky character with a decent respect for the customs of his native tableland. Frut says his prayers dutifully, bows to the wisdom of the Sages, and even intones the slogan, "All lizards are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lizard in Limbo | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

Moscow applauded the Seventh Symphony at the world premiere last fall, and Pravda itself stamped it doctrinally O.K. Philadelphia's dignified matinee audience, which had half expected to be buffeted and assaulted by modernist clangor, had a pleasant enough half hour, called Conductor Ormandy back for four bows. Sergei...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Prokofiev's Farewell | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

Cellar Rendezvous. Farouk took the end of marriage No. 2 philosophically (No. 1, to Farida, the "Peerless One," ended in 1948, after ten years, three daughters), and with more high-pitched prose: "Awaiting every new development with full faith in the justice of God," he had his lawyer tell newsmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Life Without Narriman | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

Courtly Bows. Whistler's professional "mission" was "revealing the Thames to the people who lived on it but had previously only seen it as a stretch of water." His avocation was what he called "the gentle art of making enemies." A lady who asked him if he thought a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: West Pointer with a Brush | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

The Emperor of Japan is a stooped, middle-aged man whose greatest pleasure in life is marine biology. He was against the war and the militarists. He is no deity and doesn't want to be. He even likes the idea of Japan as a democracy. But he is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 85 Million Paradoxes | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

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