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...president to get switching facilities for a Fort Worth factory, telephone New York, bully a tightfisted friend into giving $5,000 to a Carter charity, oversee the decorative detail for the men's lavatories in the new $12 million Amon Carter airport, plot another skirmish with that old devil Dallas, or order gift packages of aged whisky, western hats, smoked turkeys, jeroboams of champagne, jeweled western belts and Countess Mara neckties to be distributed to a wide assortment of friends, celebrities and casual acquaintances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Feb. 25, 1952 | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...prohibition of "Black Mass," the rite of devil-worship at the University of Chicago has caused the student government to consider a resolution criticizing the University for "unjustified suppression of religious freedom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chicago Students Protest Suppression of Black Mass | 2/13/1952 | See Source »

Details of an attempt by 20 student devil's advocates to perform the Mass on Halloween came to light last week. The plan was prevented when it leaked out to the director of the house system, who ordered all the students involved to report to their house heads periodically on Halloween night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chicago Students Protest Suppression of Black Mass | 2/13/1952 | See Source »

...suggest that B. M. Baruch, elder statesman, has come to be B.M.B., elder bootlegger? I have known Mister Bernie for quite a spell . . . he is still a veritable devil with the girls, and . . . completely without probity when he describes his ability at shooting quail, and I know for sure he cheats at Canasta . . . Mr. Baruch's favorite statement, which he started using on President Wilson and has not abandoned since, is: 'What are the facts?' I hang him with his own slogan. 'What are the facts, Mr. Baruch? How did the booze get in your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: One Touch of Fantasy | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

...Lady Poltagrue, a Public Peril The Devil, having nothing else to do, Went off to tempt My Lady Poltagrue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A BELLOC SAMPLER * | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

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