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"No tourist on roller skates" ever did the Continent as quickly as the fly named Fanny whizzes through contemporary life. "There is nothing like the ridiculous to cultivate one's sense of the absurd," says the fly.

Author: By Alice P. Albright, | Title: A Fly in the Pigment | 9/30/1961 | See Source »

Insistent Drum. Frenchmen can read more than history in Holy Week. They can read of a France beset far more sorely than she is today-bled white and depopulated by Napoleon's wars, split by divided loyalties and false dreams-and find consolation for today's troubles in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Flight of the King | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

Out of the Shadows. Overshadowed by its better known rival from Moscow, the Kirov itself had never made it across the Atlantic. Now, after a six-week success in Paris (where one dancer, Rudolf Nureyev, bolted from guards and won political asylum) and London, the Kirov is making its North...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Nijinsky's Heirs | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

Count Crash. Count Wolfgang von Trips, who could have managed his family's Hemmersback Castle in the German Rhineland as a moneyed aristocrat, had a desperate desire to win. All through the summer, Von Trips, 33, and Phil Hill, 34, of Santa Monica, Calif., teammates in Italian Auto Magnate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Desperate Desire | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

Salinger fans have filled the resultant vacuum with splendid imagination. The author apparently listens now and then behind his locked door, because in Seymour, an Introduction, his fictional alter ego refers to "poignant get-well-soon notes from old readers of mine who have somewhere picked up the bogus information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: SONNY | 9/15/1961 | See Source »

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