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...decides that he too will go. This decision of state sets off a barrage of complications. Tereso's chief of police, worried that he may lose his post because his harsh methods are no longer needed in the thoroughly subdued country, decides to stage and then dramatically crush a phony attempt on the dictator's life. The "assassination" is to be undertaken by Perro, a police spy with a passion for intrigue, and Saverio, a bumbling idealist who dreams of Utopia and imagines Perro to be an agent of a secret revolutionary committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Stendhal's Shadow | 7/14/1952 | See Source »

...Johnny" Burgoyne planned to drive straight from Lake Champlain to Albany. There he would link up with two more armies; Sir William Howe's, moving north from New York, and Colonel Barry St. Leger's, sweeping east across the Mohawk Valley. The three-pronged attack aimed to crush the rebellion by separating New England from the other colonies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: CAMPAIGN OF 1777 | 7/7/1952 | See Source »

Violinist Alexander Schneider, 43, has had a crush on Haydn for 22 years. As a young man, he and three other musicians sat for most of two days and nights playing all of the old master's 83 string quartets, while friends fed and watered them. Vilna-born "Sasha" Schneider has always wanted to repeat the performance-at leisure-for a public audience. Last week he and his new Schneider Quartet wrapped up a cycle of 16 concerts-some 40 hours of music in all-with Haydn's seven quartet interludes for the Lenten season, The Seven Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Crush on Haydn | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

...face of such nuclear juggernauts, can civilization survive a totalitarian onslaught? Dr. Bush is optimistic. Another great war need not come, he says, if democracy stocks its arsenal of preparedness -and its arsenal of liberty. The mightiest of modern arms, Dr. Bush concludes, cannot crush free men armed with the resourcefulness and ideals of democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 12, 1952 | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

...Grand Tour was not already a relic, draft board officials are doing their best to crush its last vestiges. But this is not actually their intention, and under the present system they can do little else...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Homebodies | 5/7/1952 | See Source »

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