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Behind man's efforts to exterminate the world's insect population lies the uneasy suspicion that the insect world may some day take over his own. As Illinois Entomologist George Decker put it last week: man "is a late arrival who has attempted to displace a well-adjusted and highly versatile original population, which bars no holds to recover its lost property." In Los Angeles, Decker and his fellow bug specialists were gathered at the first annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America, to exchange intelligence reports on the warfare between insect and man. By & large, their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bugaboo | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

...Darke is neither a four-star writer, a triple-decker intellectual nor a two-timing spy. He is just a London bus conductor. But for 18 years Busman Darke was a member of the British Communist Party, and in Cockney Communist he tells a story that Communist writers, intellectuals and spies have skipped: how a middle-echelon party functionary lives and thinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Busman's Holiday | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

Amorous Defense. Author Gary does not waste much sympathy on Ann's husband, Willie Bauché, who is having hives, hay fever and asthma at the thought of having lost her to Rainier. Willie is a Hollywood "universal genius" and triple-decker phony, not quite real enough to be Apathetic. Willie finally hires a killer to get rid of Rainier. But the killer is killed himself, and Rainier goes to Korea, leaving Ann desolate but able to understand a bit of the old Cavalier compulsion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All for Love | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

...Rodgers saying soothingly, "It will come, Oscar, it will come"; Joshua (South Pacific) Logan and John (The King and I) Van Druten directing, and looking as nervous as Men of Distinction who have misplaced their highballs; Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer having a chat about the merits of triple-decker sandwiches (Rex is for, Lilli against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 3, 1953 | 8/3/1953 | See Source »

...lessons but is kept at his practicing by his well-meaning mother and his music teacher, an evil, oily character named Dr. Terwilliker. Falling asleep at the keyboard, the boy is transported in a Technicolored dream to a fantastic castle in which Dr. Terwilliker keeps a mile-long two-decker piano. At this preposterous musical instrument the teacher plots and schemes to trap 500 boys ("Think of it! Five thousand fingers!") who have been dragged from their ballplaying. Happily, a likable plumber named Zabladowski comes to the rescue of the boy and his pretty mother (who was only under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 22, 1953 | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

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