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This year's lady tourist, sure to stun the natives, will just as surely bring back with her the lovely smock, hand-painted in the juice from the biddledee nuts that fell from the trees that shaded her patio. It will be a find found in the little store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Cool for a Hot Climate | 12/14/1962 | See Source »

Spat Upon. Long before the Civil War, Phenix City became famed as a vice town, populated mostly by crooked gamblers and diseased whores. Gunfire was all too common. In later years, slot machines lined the walls of barbershops and service stations, even sprouted on the sidewalks. Servicemen from nearby Fort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alabama: As Contagious as Corruption | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

Not even the smaller cities are immune. Johet, Ill., for example, has a folk cave appropriately called The Know Where Fort Wayne, Ind., has a place called The fourth Shadow where people squat on the Hoor and sip espresso by candlelight over doors that have been made into tables Strings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Folk Singing: Sibyl with Guitar | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

"Love is the crooked thing. There is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it." See THE WORLD, The Crooked Thing.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Oct. 19, 1962 | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

...Love is the crooked thing," wrote William Butler Yeats. "There is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it." In the Far East last week, love seemed crookeder than ever. Items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Far East: The Crooked Thing | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

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