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In this day and age when the crooked arms of the TV antenna hold the skyline, rather than the straight arms of the cross, the tithe is a good start [Feb. 16]. Later, someone may reverse the percentage so that we give 90% to God and 10% to ourselves. We...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 2, 1962 | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

Strict Code. He was raised in New Concord (pop. 2,000), a quiet, shirt-sleeves-and-overalls town in central Ohio, where his father, by turns, was a railroad conductor, the proprietor of a plumbing business, and the owner of the local Chevrolet agency. As a boy, he swam in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Space: The Man | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

Sail a Crooked Ship. The last movie made by the late Ernie Kovacs is a sort of shaggy seadog story in which Comedian Kovacs plays "a unsussessful crinimal" with a big cigar and a tiny brain.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Feb. 23, 1962 | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

Sail a Crooked Ship (Columbia). A very funny man was the late Ernie Kovacs (TIME, Jan. 19), and never funnier than when he was playing a shtunk. Big, broad-shouldered and vulgarly handsome, he had a way of swaggering up to some pitiful little twerp and sneering down at him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Unsussessful Crinimal | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

Blood, just as it comes from a donor's vein, is worth more than fine old cognac; but unlike brandy, blood is harmed by aging. Faced with the necessity of throwing this costly liquid away after its effective life of 21 days has passed, a crooked dealer may break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blood Traffic | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

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