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Critical and public reaction to Radulovic's new show gave him hope that he might now be able to devote himself full time to painting-and still eat. The Art

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Better Than Mink | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

The year 1859 flares up in English literature like a volcanic eruption. In that one year were published (wholly or in part) Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, Thackeray's The Virginians, George Eliot's Adam Bede, Tennyson's Idylls of the King, Darwin's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Wounded Egoist | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

It was a pleasure to see a magazine of your caliber devote a little intelligent attention to the sport of weight lifting [Sept. 14], a form of athletic competition which, in its rude forms, is as ancient as any . . . and is deserving of more than the jealous jeers hurled at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 5, 1953 | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

Dottie Ferguson and her husband Frank incorporated the cookie-making venture as Dorothy Ferguson, Inc., issued 60,000 shares of stock and began selling it at $2 a share. Greeley townsfolk, from the doctor who set her leg to the garage owner who serviced her refrigeration, bought the stock. Soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SMALL BUSINESS: Dottle's Dough | 9/28/1953 | See Source »

Another alarming aspect of the U.S. automotive scene, delegates agreed, is the increase in auto engine horsepower. Cried Dean A. Fales, onetime associate professor of automotive engineering at M.I.T.: "A race with death!" Fales, who has long taken a dim view of seats like sofas, slanting windshields and even the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Too Much Horsepower? | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

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