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...least alert reader can guess that the spirits imported by evil Mr. Lindelbaum are more vodka and voodoo than honest Scotch. South African-born Novelist van der Post (Venture to the Interior) has taken his theme from French Philosopher-Sociologist Lucien Levy-Bruhl: "Le reve est le vrai dieu des Primitifs [The dream is the real god of primitive peoples]." The Russians know that the far-flung Amangtak-wena tribe is expecting its chief witch doctor to have a "dream," i.e., to receive from the spirit world an oracular directive on tribal policy. Hunter-Hero Pierre de Beauvilliers suspects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Mar. 14, 1955 | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

...Hazebrouck distillers drained off their largest vat. Peering into the darkness, workmen spied a small, shining object and uncovered the end of a metal tube. The tube led them under the distillery walls, 100 yds. along a ditch, across a meadow, into a garage on the national highway."Mon Dieu! What a scheme!" said an admiring Frenchman. "You just turn a spigot and the liquor gushes out!" Arrested in Belgium, Garageowner Edouard Welcomme and his wife implicated others, and soon the town of Hazebrouck was filled with denunciations and counter-denunciations. Result: Abel Vandamme, a rich textile manufacturer living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Pipeline Anonymous | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

...principal streets of the city. On her way she met Sir Walter Raleigh, who, observing her naked condition, threw his cloak about her, crying, "Honi soit qui mat y pense!', which, being translated, means: 'Thy need is greater than mine!' The Queen graciously responded, 'Dieu et mon droit!', which translated means, 'My God, you are right!' This incident is called the Magna Charta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: It Happened One Night | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

...last and perhaps the most important ingredient in Hogan's stew was one the fates added. It happened when he was 36, on a lonely stretch of road in Texas, the night a Greyhound bus crashed head-on into his Cadillac. As he lay in Hotel Dieu hospital in El Paso, down to about 105 Ibs., he had plenty of time to meditate-about the past, the present and the hereafter. When Valerie talked with him during visiting hours, the subject of golf was never mentioned. Asked by a newspaperman if he would ever play again, Hogan answered vaguely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Young Ideas | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

...Anti-Catholic literature of the mid-19th century had no greater scandal-success than Maria Monk's Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal, a massive volume of bogus reminiscences. Maria's mother later testified that her daughter had never been in any convent, but, because of a childhood brain injury, had been confined in a Montreal asylum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 11, 1952 | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

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