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They go to Mexico to hunt lizards with an eagle, a passion of Thea's that Augie scarcely questions. While they train the eagle, love waxes. But the eagle is a craven; when a lizard bites him, he flaps off. Love wanes as Thea takes to collecting snakes and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Makes Augie Run? | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

Reconstructing the card trick was simple. The five women had come in early in the evening, bought cards for the big $1,000 game, and appropriated the corner table. Some time during the evening, the woman with the "winning" card substituted a matching orange card with unnumbered squares from a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GAMBLING: Card Trick | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

The scene switches to Mount Olympus, where Jupiter is having trouble with his wife Juno. She berates him for his old trick of assuming the shape of a shepherd, a bull or a swan for purposes of dalliance ("Though the girls are squeezable," leers Cupid, "with a swan it isn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Straw-Hat Orpheus | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

In his new book, Paton's manner has far more tedious, the treatment of the subject matter far less convincing. Pieter van Vlaanderen, the policeman, faces the problems of a full-blooded man who suffers from a prudish wife, a puritanical society and his own rigidly conventional conscience. So...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sex on the Veld | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

Matthews was now the Communists' No. 1 fellow traveler. Then something happened that changed his life. He had become a director and vice president of Consumers' Research (an organization formed to make impartial tests of consumer products and pass along its findings to subscribers). Employees of the growing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Matthews Story | 8/10/1953 | See Source »

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