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...cavernous Currigan Hall, firecrackers exploded and blue and white balloons spelled out the winning name: PEÑA. Outside, young people cruised in cars down Denver's historic Larimer Street, chanting "Chicano power!" Echoing his campaign slogan, Federico Peña told the packed hall of supporters last week, "Let us create a great American city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mile High | 7/4/1983 | See Source »

Minor devil is James Arthur Currigan Luckypenny, middle-aged accountant in a big London munitions firm, bored by office routine, crazy for money and the world's fleshpots. Big devil is Munitions Tycoon Cornelius Lamsden, fiendish rhapsodizer on the worthlessness of mankind and the profit and beauty in killing with Lamsden munitions, who sends Luckypenny to Italy on a confidential mission, makes him his righthand man. By the time the double-crossing complications of the plot have lured Luckypenny to his end, Author Marshall's sermon has long since turned silly, a farce which means to be horrible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sermon Thriller | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

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