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...children, are half-Christian, but have their virgin goddess Irma has lost her husband, is half-pagan but has the adoration she loves As for Author March, he has had the pleasure of some deft ironic thrusts, at the expense of almost everybody but the reader nography of irrelevant chatter, its sleep-enticing rhythms, its delight in obsessive enumeration of uninteresting objects, and its aggravating tone of false naivete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inside the Holocaust | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

...Delhi last month, the 500 members of India's Parliament prepared to go home. In the great olive green chamber, amid laughter, chatter and happy wishes for a pleasant vacation, hardly anyone noticed a strange, solitary figure in a yellow silk tunic and turban, slumped over his desk, weeping bitterly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Captive Candidate | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...Platter Chatter. Columbia Records, Inc. brought out four unbreakable 6-in., 78 r.p.m. records for children, starring Ballplayers Phil Rizzuto, Yogi Berra, Bob Feller and Ralph Kiner. Each star gives tips on his specialty ("Here's how to lay down a sacrifice bunt . . ."; "A good pitcher never leaves anything to chance . ; ." etc.). Price per record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Jun. 2, 1952 | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

...learned the Gettysburg Address, and Mrs. Vining "entertained hopes that some day at a diplomatic dinner, he would be able to dazzle the American Ambassador by an apt quotation." By the time Mrs. Vining's four years were up, the Prince was reading Pilgrim's Progress, could chatter away fluently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Window Opener | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

...lamented that the invention had also made possible the broadcasting of "the worst music on earth-and political speeches." Said the ex-President: "Perhaps the worst of his results is the singing commercial . . . And then there is the fellow who cannot sponsor a program without periodic interruption of huckster chatter into the midst of a great drama." Hoover urged De Forest to redeem himself with another invention: "That is the push button by which we could transmit our emotions instantly back to the broadcasters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Hoover Is Disgruntled | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

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