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Awakened by the screams of his children, Farmer Panfilo Castro scrambled out of bed and groped for the kerosene lamp. In the flickering light, he saw a winged shadow dart toward his youngest child, then flit out through the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Vampires | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

THANKS FOR PUTTING THE SQUARES AROUND THE TRUMAN PICTURE. THEY WILL MAKE IT DANDY FOR MOUNTING ON MY DART BOARD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 7, 1951 | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

...first glance there seems to be something badly awry in Emily Hahn's choice of 18th Century Novelist Fanny Burney as the subject for a biography. Miss Burney kept a journal which frequently tells how the turn of the talk had forced her to dart from a room with blushing cheeks. She would have run like a deer from her cigar-smoking biographer, who, in China to Me, documented her position as one of the most uninhibited girls on the China Coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Live & Learn Nothing | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...primer, Noah Webster's famous speller and the Me Guff ey readers. Ever since the indefatigable Horace Mann had stormed through Massachusetts preaching the cause of better schools ("In a Republic, Ignorance is a Crime!"), successive generations of young Americans had been learning the three Rs as Dart of their birthright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pattern of Necessity | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

...unhappy Republican elephant consulting a psychiatrist because of a feeling that he is "not wanted." In more bitter mood, e.g., challenging the Un-American Activities Committee's qualifications for purging textbooks ("Now to find somebody that can read"), Herblock sometimes has the deadly point of a poisoned dart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Block Party | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

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