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By last week local police reckoned that Amou, if he was indeed the Mad Moor, had five shots left. They knew he would use them efficiently. "He is mad, yes," said one gendarme, "but he is cool. He has only one goal-to kill as many Europeans as possible before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOROCCO: Mad Moor | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

Beautiful Princess. Fundamentally, it is the story of the girl who marries the wrong man. "Absolutely dazzling . . . with her white skin, golden hair, classical features," Mlle. de Chartres appears at the court of Henry II of France. Everybody thinks her very beautiful, and the Prince of Cleves, a dim young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love in a Court Climate | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

. . . Mr. Labrenz was quoted as saying, ". . . we do not have control of life." How illogical can one be? The child needed a transfusion to live; but Labrenz and his wife refused to permit the transfusion; therefore, the child dies, though they "do not have control" of her life. Instead of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 21, 1951 | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

Characters wander in & out of The Enclosure as if it were a transient hotel. Its reigning matriarch, Mrs. Halstead, dies, and with her goes the grand style of life. She had been, as one of the Enclosure stalwarts put it, "the only one around here worth the powder to blow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Claustrophobia Acres | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

"Tradition" dies not necessarily imply the colorful fluttering of Tree Day or the hub-bub of hooprolling, but a certain pattern of conformity that the Wellesley girl, in spite of her acclamation of freedom, slips into until the habit becomes a part of the responsibility.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley: the Girl Behind the Teapot | 5/12/1951 | See Source »

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