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A weather-beaten gray tombstone with grass and dirt still clinging to its bottom was mysteriously deposited in the Dunster House Superintendent's office yesterday. There is no clue as to how the stone got in the office.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mystery Tombstone Appears in Dunster | 5/8/1951 | See Source »

R. A. Butler wound up the debate for the Tories. He said that the Labor ministers were "clinging . . . like huddled and bedraggled limpets to every rock, exposed to every wind and gale that blows . . . Finally, they will be swept away by one of the most human of all elemental forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Plenty of Sleeping Pills | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

As the Torreón control tower's searchlight picked up Flight 202 coming back, one of its operators spotted a dark object clinging to the horizontal stabilizer on the right of the plane's rudder. When Guzman brought the ship in, the object slid off and ran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Free Loader | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

Floodtide (Dial; $3) is Frank Yerby's mixture as before, a crude, shrewd combination of sex, violence, sadism, costuming and cliche. Yerby, a 33-year-old Negro writer who hit a $250,000 jackpot with his first novel, The Foxes of Harrow, knows just what his customers like and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vitamin Pills | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

As for mobilizing the nation, he summed up: "What I propose is that we organize ourselves-all our resources of men, money, materials, morale-so that whatever happens, the armed forces can get what they need, when they need it ... It is the choice of 'peace' or '...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Toot Suite | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

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