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The reason for this is that in all her twelve novels, Ivy Compton-Burnett has never tried to tell a convincing story. With her, any old melodrama (even including secret drawers, lost wills, fantastic skeletons in impeccable family closets) passes for plot; all Novelist Compton-Burnett needs is the chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Futures in the Past | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

The warnings have often been repeated in technical journals. But the public, delighted with DDT, kept right on spraying closets, beds, kitchens and household pets. Whole communities were engulfed in artificially created DDT fogs. Gardeners and dairy farmers found it a quick means of destroying insect pests. By 1947, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Worse Than Insects? | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

Take my money!" In the dingy little office at 27 School Street, greenbacks overflowed into wastebaskets and closets; the floor was carpeted with money. In eight months, 40,000 people pressed $15 million into Ponzi's willing hands.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Take My Money! | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

With Schedule I in hand, a tenant began by classifying his apartment. A three-room fifth-floor apartment in a fairly decent neighborhood would be rated as 3-a. With louder street noises, darker corridors and no stair carpeting, it dropped into 3-b. He then classified his rooms: "habitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Coefficients for the Millions | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

In the Western sector of Berlin, the city assembly did some strenuous housecleaning. First they voted to sweep the name of Wilhelm Pieck, pink-faced boss of the city's Reds, from the roll of its honorary citizens. Then they went to work on some moldering skeletons in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Comings & Goings | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

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