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...portrait of a poor white who, after years of loyalty, rebels against his landlord; Dry September, a lynching story to end all lynching stories; A Courtship, a richly comic tall tale about the love rivalry of a white man and an Indian in early igth Century America; and Death Drag, a harrowing story about three hungry, neurotic stunt flyers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Haunted Landscapes | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

...approaches are deceptively peaceful. Water buffaloes patiently drag plows through the flooded rice fields; wiry little peasant women in circular straw hats, chocolate-colored jackets and black trousers pitpat swiftly along the roads in bare feet, carrying produce to market in baskets balanced on poles over their shoulders. As my jeep left the road and followed the twisting, hedged lane that led to Bai Trang, war -or preparations for war-sprang to view. A rough stone wall protected the village. It bore the crudely painted inscription: "Da dao bon pha dinh pha dinh chua ro nha" (Down with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: VILLAGE OF NO ILLUSIONS | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

...Fairfield-Suisun Air Force Base runway before she was airborne. Seconds later, Plane Captain E. Q. Steffes radioed that he was in real triple trouble: two of his engines were roaring faster & faster out of control, would probably soon tear themselves from the wings. And he was fighting the drag of a landing gear that wouldn't retract. He banked the B-29 in a steep semicircle, skimmed close to the lights of Fairfield-Suisun's sprawling trailer camp, and crash-landed-left wing first-into an open field, a mile short of the runway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARM'ED FORCES: Target for the Night | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

...mangled metal. Then, as ambulances and fire trucks roared down from their ready stations, one of the crew jumped out of the wreckage and circled dazedly until a sergeant ran from the trailer camp to lead him away. Miraculously seven others, including Captain Steffes and his copilot, managed to drag themselves free. "Let's get out of here," one of them mumbled. "There are bombs on there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARM'ED FORCES: Target for the Night | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

...girl's own personality should not be allowed to intrude. For "Mr. Pleased-to-meet-you," the Rotarian type, "be a good saleswoman and drag out the wares you know will attract him-social position, education, prominent friends." Tell the flashy spender, "You're awfully good to people." For the stingy man, "make a virtue of his cautiousness by talking disparagingly of the man who throws his money around." Intellectuals should not intimidate her. "They all think more or less alike," says Miss Carlyle. "Some reading from the books of his authorities will give you the confidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Manners & Morals | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

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