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Modern Living. In London, Sir John Simpson, controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office, told a business gathering that among the office's books that are selling "like hot cakes" are: Illustrated Catalogue of Fleas, Horse Flies of the Ethiopian Region and Sex Life of the Elephant Seal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 13, 1957 | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

But since there are always some people who want to get emotionally involved in their entertainment, and since producer Mike Todd obviously set out to please everybody, the picture even has a plot. Adapted by humorist S. J. Perelman from a novel by Jules Verne, the story relates the adventures...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Around the World in 80 Days | 5/9/1957 | See Source »

The sun may set on the British Empire, but never, apparently, on novels about it. Currently the most prolific of old-colonial-writing hands is John Masters (Bhowani Junction, Coromandel!), an ex-infantry officer (4th Gurkha Rifles) who now offers the sixth installment of his projected 35-volume epic of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: That Elephant Is Back | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

When did this happen? One possible answer centers around a foreign invader of Israel characterized by the scrolls as the Kittim. It would obviously make a considerable difference whether this term meant the Syrians (who dominated Israel from 198 B.C. to 141 B.C.) or the Romans (from 63 B.C. on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Out of the Desert | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

Pedicle flaps from the arm are sometimes attached to the stump of a partly destroyed nose as the first step in its reconstruction. They are then severed from the arm. This gives the patient a "trunk" several inches long. One man disappeared after this stage of the operation, did not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Flap Happy? | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

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