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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...form of an unscrupulous female named Erica-a "triple-faced, ash-blonde bitch" with whom Poet Venn-Thomas had had a gruesome love affair in the Late Christian Epoch. What Erica does to overcivilized New Crete is something awful. She plants some 20th Century cigarettes in the closet of a cute little nymph named Sapphire; she fouls up the witches, hexes the horses, mortifies the magicians. By the time she's through, New Crete is on the verge of collapse-at which point Poet Venn-Thomas sensibly decides to whirl back to the bloody old 2Oth Century with little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Perils of Utopia | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...spent my last nickels to keep my shirts clean. Musicians are lazy, don't seem to care how they look. Some of them are dirty. I don't hold with that." Last week in Vancouver, he had 16 $150 suits hanging in his hotel-room closet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Louis the First | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...atomic pile at Oak Ridge and "cooked" for a month in neutrons. The process changes part of their normal iron into radioactive iron 59. Packed in 300-lb. lead cases, the "hot" rings are shipped to Richmond, Calif, and stored in a thick-walled closet (called "the cave") in the Research Corp.'s basement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Isotopes at Work | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...Castle Closet. Not until last summer, 18 years later, did Dieckmann, now a U.S. citizen, get back to France. This time, he wrote, telephoned and called on the baron. Finally, the baron told him to go out to his castle outside Fécamp: there were some papers there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dream Chaser | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

Next day, Dieckmann began searching the castle. For eight days he ransacked boxes in a closet of the servants' quarters. Finally, he had emptied the closet-except for a bunch of papers lying loose and uncovered at the back. There, the fourth paper he pulled out proved to be a Diderot manuscript that scholars had never known of before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dream Chaser | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

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