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Poor Aldebaran Flood. She is beautiful (if one admires a face of "grey bone with a coral gash across it"), and she could paper Piccadilly with the receipts from her bestselling novel, Bells on Her Fingers. But Aldebaran is a child of fate-the "blood guilt" of her ancestors keeps "working itself out," and she "can't help being passionate about anything to do with colored people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Small Puddle | 7/7/1952 | See Source »

Tokyo Extravagance. The old Trigger's first patrol began with the worst kind of embarrassment: within sight of Midway during the great battle with the Japanese fleet, she ran on to a coral reef and stuck. But next time out, there began the thrill of the chase and the underseas tension that were the normal climate of the subs. As in all forms of combat, the best of training was only partial preparation for the first attack and counterattack. Moving in for the kill, lining up the first ene my ship in the sights, the torpedoes crashing into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Davy Jones War | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

Goody Goody (The Modernaires; Coral). An oldtimer turned out with precision by a group that has kept the spirit of its famous days with Glenn Miller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Jun. 2, 1952 | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

Perenially fashionable coral beads and shell jewelry always seem to combine perfectly with summer fashions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Feminine Fashions Flower With 'Scoop' Necklines, Beachcoats, Straw Corsets, Other Odd Offerings | 5/1/1952 | See Source »

Falling Market. In Coral Gables, Fla., when Store Supervisor J. R. Lawson shouted "drop it," ten steaks, two hams, four chickens and two packages of sliced ham fell from the skirts of two women shoplifters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 24, 1952 | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

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