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Furious, he conducts a one-man raid on a well-known elephant trapper's stockade. He sets fire to an ivory merchant's store. He pumps some buckshot into the backside of a big U.S. TV personality (Orson Welles). Inexplicably, the great man presents the crazy dentist to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Nov. 3, 1958 | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

Despite a Congressman's $22,500-a-year salary plus expense allowance, the personal expenses of district pulse taking, of meeting and knowing people, have forced the Chamberlains to put a $10,000 mortgage on their East Lansing home. Beyond that, Chamberlain figures he will spend $20,000 before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Meeting the People | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

In general, the author approaches Harvard in a way the blind men handled the elephant, bit by bit. He tries to let the University reveal itself through vignettes of sections, CRIMSON editorials, student comments; and if he does not capture the Gestalt of the University, he shows its diversity well...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: 'Imperial Harvard' | 10/3/1958 | See Source »

The Lion & the Elephant. As Minister of Native Affairs, Verwoerd palavered endlessly with tribal chiefs, endlessly exhorted the Africans: "We should live apart, as the lion and the elephant live apart." But for all his determination to drive the blacks into "native reserves," Verwoerd spent more money on them than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: God's Man | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

Some of the sources of Orsini's inspiration can be guessed at. The ogre seems borrowed from the Mouth of Hell leading to Pluto's cave, as illustrated in medieval manuscripts on Ovid. The curious words ringing the ogre's mouth-Lasciate Ogni Pensiero Voi Que Entrate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: MARVELS OF BOMARZO | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

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