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In Dr. Johnson's biographical Life of Richard Savage, a gifted but improvident London hack writer gets embroiled in bastardy, murder, poverty, affluence, licentiousness and general skulduggery, but as he squanders his talents and dies in a debtors' prison, the rigorous moralist writing his story extends his compassion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bedside Reading | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

Under the plan, an investor agrees to buy up to $10,000 worth of the trust's shares with monthly or quarterly installments over any period from ten months to ten years. (He can stop his program at any time, without penalty.) In addition to buying mutual fund shares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECURITIES: Investment Insurance | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

He is floored by the poverty that haunts his father with the workhouse, wrecks his mother's and sister's health and prematurely kills both, and sweeps the Nimmos into humiliating dependence on neighbors. He is floored by his preacher-father's Puritan code and his mathematical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Up from Poverty | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

Gabriel Gradėre has corrupted young girls, lived with a prostitute on her earnings, run a ring of brothels with her, trafficked in cocaine and blackmail, and is now, at 50, being blackmailed in turn by the prostitute Aline. After a childhood friend has given birth to his son...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Skeleton of Sin | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

Fond of her gentle mother, fearful of her bluff, cruel father, Helen Angus is romping through her teens with artless innocence when Ratoons begins. Then the hothouse climate brings her emotions to quick bloom; she falls in love with a half-Boer boy named Chris and soon is pregnant. Before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: African Sprouts | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

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