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...musical auto horns. In a good year, he makes $20,000 before taxes, but nearly always ends up in the red. After all, one has to keep up with the next-door Ecleses. Jeff never cracks book; culture is his wife's department. He gets his fun shooting deer with a few old cronies from the Chowder & Marching Society. But he sends his boy & girl to Eastern schools to sap up "assurance." His kids baffle Jeff. Why did Tom become a commercial artist instead of coming into the business? Why does Tinker feel Gateway is dreary, her family "common...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Latter-Day Babbitt | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

Cinemactors with an urge to rough it build their homes and swimming pools amid the rocks and woods of Hollywood Hills, an area just north of Hollywood. There, deer, skunks, possum and even rattlesnakes are often seen. To complete the illusion of country life, almost everybody in Hollywood Hills reads the Canyon Crier (circ. 6,500), a fortnightly tabloid which one admirer calls "a New Yorker with its shoes off." For its pheasant-under-glass audience, the homey Crier dishes up an oatmeal fare. It treats everybody in Hollywood Hills as if they were small-town neighbors. The Crier reports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hollywood's Crier | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

...booming mass chorus and far more power than the usual smaller ensemble. In three intricate chansons by Debussy and three more by Ravel, his singers performed with gymnastic precision. Finally they went on to the first U.S. performance of Bela Bartok's exotic secular cantata, The Enchanted Deer, and handled it with perfect form and ease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Too Much Perfection | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

...successful one, the natives believed that the stone was invested with supernatural powers. They began to use it either as a means of insuring good fortune, or of giving thanks for a successful hunt. This theory explains the numerous animals, which include a horse, an ibex, a deer, and a woolly rhinoceros...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pebble Returns to France After Two Years at Harvard | 12/5/1951 | See Source »

...State Game Protector Henry Bernstein reported that red, the traditional distinguishing mark of hunters, is no longer of much help; too many hunters are colorblind. Elsewhere, experienced hands dressed so as to blend with the background, figuring that they would then have as much chance of survival as a deer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Urge to Kill | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

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