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...spinster snapped back at Kinsey that men are "prancing, leering goats," eh? Well, one prancing and leering bachelor-until a spinster married me-snaps back that the female population still is a lovely bunch of goatherds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 7, 1953 | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

...Garden State" of New Jersey (pronounced Goddan State of New J-eh-sey) boasts some of the most remarkably unsylvan areas east of the city dump at Gary, Ind. Its smoke-hung Hudson shore is littered, mile on dreary mile, with dingy factories, junkyards, piers, abattoirs, disconsolate old houses and drafty barrooms. When the wind is right, the indescribable perfume of some of the world's most thoroughly fermented tidal flats profanes the air. Jersey politics-a hatchery for grasping bosses-rests in this setting as comfortably as a bloated grapefruit floating in a sump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Grapefruit in the Garden State | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

...year old Irishman, whose crew cut is now slightly graying, has great ability at stringing a credulous victim into fright, then self-laughter. To an innocent freshman, who had just been told by a doctor that his knee required surgery, Murphy was heard to say "Knee job, eh? Fine--I know that doctor has always wanted to do a knee operation." That the doctor in question was Quigley himself hardly alleviated the freshman's tremors...

Author: By David W. Cudhea, | Title: Technical Humor | 4/24/1953 | See Source »

Cartoon-wise, the Lampoon is generally uninteresting. Updike does seven out of nine with Charles Robinson drawing a couple of blanks. Particularly useless is the full page drawing of man and Sphinx with the caption, "Eh...

Author: By E. H. Harvey jr., | Title: The Lampoon | 3/5/1953 | See Source »

...they smiled. "You wanted to leave us, eh? Wanted to leave Poland, did you? Where were you going to? To America? You are Mr. America, now, eh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: Mr. America | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

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