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...tiny Uta-jima (Song Island) fish for octopus. The women dive in the numbing offshore waters for abalone. The islanders' lives are far from a song. But when they rise from the earthen floors of the dark, dank-smelling huts, they see the morning sun dancing on the sea, and stately clouds crossing the horizon "like ancient gods." Teen-age Shinji is content to follow this age-old pattern of a life both dangerously and harmoniously close to nature. When he prays in the garden of the Yashiro shrine, he asks, "God, let the seas be calm, the fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love on a Japanese Isle | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

Daily at 5 a.m., the horse was stuffed into a stall heated to 105° F., subjected to half an hour's isolation in a dank fog of springwater steam. As if that were not enough, tubes were shoved into his mouth and vapor blown down his throat. Later, through a rubber mask over nostrils and mouth, he was forced to inhale more of the curative minerals. After an hour of cooling stall-walking, Pyrame was led out to the light and air, got his daily ration of Bourboulien water, fresh from the spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Winning Waters | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

Otherwise, the 1956 big-league baseball season got off to a hot start last week in cold, dank weather. There were rookies in almost every lineup, but it was the big-name pros who provided the heat. Philadelphia's Robin Roberts, hoping to win 20 games for the seventh straight year, pitched a typical Robertsian game, was slammed for nine hits, five for extra bases, yet beat the Dodgers 8-6. The Giants' Willie Mays performed some run-scoring aggression at home plate (see cut), personally accounted for the winning run over Pittsburgh, did the same the following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Play Ball | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

...months later Carolina's father, Ernesto Picchioni, was known to all Italy as the "Monster of Nerola." With her mother, two sisters and a brother, Carolina lived with him in a dank stone cottage in a lonely gorge in the hills east of Rome. Father Picchioni was an itinerant olive-picker, chicken thief, and loud-mouthed braggart who was first a Fascist, later a Communist. Always roaring at his wife and children, he once made them dig a long family grave in the backyard so that "it will be ready when I want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Monster's Child | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

...Jesus sweated blood in the agony of His prayer: "My Father, if it be possible, let this chalice pass from me." In the grotto nearby, where Judas betrayed his Master with a kiss, the murals from the Byzantine and Crusader periods have peeled away, and the air is still dank from the winter's rains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: JERUSALEM: Easter, 1956 | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

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