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When Max Westfield comes along, she marries him-mainly for his money. Max, a widower, is an easygoing, openhearted American, born to be humiliated. While he is at war, she has an affair with another man and bears him a child. Deeply hurt, Max nevertheless accepts the child as his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Problem Packet | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

Oracle of the Bottle. His Gargantua and Pantagruel is the history of a dynasty of easygoing giants. At Gargantua's birth (from his mother's left ear), 17,913 cows were required for his feeding. Pantagruel, his son, needed only 4,600 cows, but he was so vigorous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Jawbreaker | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

The Golden Lie is the story of 16-year-old Foster Lloyd's growing up in Mississippi. Foster worships his tolerant, tippling, easygoing father. He is not sure how to feel about his mother: she is a religious militant who keeps badgering him to come to Sunrise Service when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Southern Adolescence | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

Easygoing Vincent Auriol is the sort of incumbent the French public wants (but has seldom had) in the presidential Elysee Palace, a genial, approachable man who possesses enough native dignity to give his job as chief of state just a wisp of kingly bearing.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Brave Old Wheelhorse | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

It was at this juncture last week that the U.S., belatedly but determinedly, turned. In his flat, Missouri accent, President Truman at last lifted the nation from its easygoing "grey mobilization" into the first real phase of total preparation. In the setting of Christmas time, Christendom's mightiest nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: A Message at Christmas | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

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