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...221B Baker Street something did happen that not even Miss Bell's English teacher had foreseen. The first issue of the London Mystery Magazine, a high-brow whodunit monthly, was published from that address, and 40,000 copies were on sale last week (at 50?) on newsstands all over Britain. Soon, London Mystery will invade the U.S. market, to match its wits against Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (circ. 150,000), which now dominates the mystery-magazine field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hedunit | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

With his two previous books, "The OxBow Incident" and "The city of Trembling Leaves," Walter Van Tilburg Clark began to rejuvenate the American west as a setting for upper-middle brow literature. In "The Track of the Cat," a simple adventure story with deep psychological undertones, he continues this project...

Author: By Arthur R. G. solmean, | Title: Clark's Third Novel: Lonelinesss, Cold, and Terror in the West | 6/9/1949 | See Source »

...Republican-Southern coalition. Then Rayburn's compromise package was introduced. Sam himself stepped out on the floor. Eloquently, somewhat defensively, he appealed for votes for his measure: "Let us not have one sector of Americans known as labor . . . believe that we would press down upon their brow a crown of thorns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: By a Hair | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...Where Is Man?" [TIME, April 11] is so wise-so eminently wise (to paraphrase Quiller-Couch on Newman's Idea of a University) -as to deserve being bound by every college student "for a frontlet on his brow and as a talisman on his writing wrist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 2, 1949 | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...principles and shrewd politics to fashion a career that astonishes the friends and enemies who, only a few years ago, regarded him as dilettante, dreamer, revolutionary and bohemian. Muñoz is a husky, stoop-shouldered man with eloquent dark eyes, a big nose, a cleft chin and furrowed brow. Except when he is amused or surprised, his face has a kind of built-in sad-angry expression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man of the People | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

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