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The Aubreys have been taken up by Mr. Morpurgo, a generous Jewish millionaire who admired and employed the errant head of their household. Mother Clare, once a celebrated pianist praised by Brahms, no longer has to cope with dunning tradespeople invading her house in a suburb of South London. Eldest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beginning a Posthumous Career This Real Night | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

Still, even a cardboard hero should not be fatal in the reality-avoidance game. The reader is willing to spend a couple of evenings in Preston's numbing company if doing so will let him put off thinking about that oral surgery or those dunning letters from school. What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Escape | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

Blissfully surrounded by bales of Canadian $1 bills totaling $36,000, Toronto Businessman Wallace Edwards, 54, hoisted a glass of Russian vodka and savored victory. In the preceding days, he had legally seized a $13 million freighter, frozen the bank accounts of the Soviet embassy in Ottawa and, in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: From Russia, with Interest | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

Five pages after Handlin's bitter and unsubstantiated critique of Roots, he chooses once again to excuse the writings of John Burgess and of William Dunning that gave credibility to contemporary theories of racial inferiority proposed by social and biological sciences. Sure they were wrong because they allowed their racist...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: A Tale of Woe | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

What if General George Armstrong Custer had defeated the Sioux at the Little Bighorn? He would have had to make another last stand-against the Northwest Telegraph Co. Just two months before the historic battle, Ma Morse was dunning Custer for an overdue bill that amounted to more than a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Lawless General Custer | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

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