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...Vargas, a dictator for 15 years, was forced out by the army in 1945, made a comeback as an elected President in 1950, but proved such a failure without dictatorial powers that he got a military ultimatum to step down in August 1954. Instead, aged 71, he put a bullet through his heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: DECLINE OF THE STRONGMEN | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

Last week tenants complained of a persistent stench coming from the Clé apartment. Policemen broke down the door. Charles Clé lay on the couch, his wrists slashed, a bullet in his temple. All the furniture was broken, picture frames and glassware smashed on the floor. In the bathroom, police found the tub covered with plywood boards and a mattress. In it was the decomposing body of Félicie Crippa, eleven months dead of head wounds. Instead of Lysol, Clé had poured several gallons of Eau de Cologne into the water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Quiet Man | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

...pachyderm activities comic and futile. But Gary wonderfully evokes what the elephants mean to Morel, so that his actions to protect them become a "hymn of hope." Morel hates those who have made a fashion of the safari-"impotents," "alcoholics" and sexually frustrated women. The hunters' bullets stay inside the hides of the beasts for years; wounded elephants pitifully use their trunks to plaster mud on the suppurating bullet wounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Peace to the Pachyderms | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

...days, though, the Pole was the top of the world for Barber, who has flown 1,000,000 miles since 1953 on assignments that sent him tracking Stanley's route through Africa, exploring a Moroccan smuggling trail, catching an Elsa Maxwell party in the Aegean and a Russian bullet in Budapest. Correspondent Barber, a sandy-haired 46, filed happily about the cold, the hazards, the food, the preparations for welcoming the Hillary expedition from New Zealand (see SCIENCE). He also told how he planted a homemade Union Jack at the Pole. One angle that escaped him: the long-established...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Barber's Pole | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...pornographic slides and projects a few lubricious scenes on the fireplace wall. Poor Dave, the man of "exquisite sensibilities," breaks training altogether by bedding down with a shapeless lump of sensuality from the brassiere factory and later marrying her. Finally, his wife's berserk first husband plants a bullet in his brain. After what Dave has been through, this is arguably a happy ending. Besides, Novelist Jones has Dave will his manuscript to his peerless editor Gwen, and everyone knows that getting published is what really counts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life Is a Four-Letter Word | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

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