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...read Plato and Josephus (in translation) at the age of eight, and taught him Latin at nine. When parishioners called, Father Alger would ask, "What are you going to be, Horatio?" Horatio Jr. would stutter: "I shall be a t-teacher of the ways of God, a p-preach-er of His commandments, a wiberal thinker, a woyal citizen." Schoolmates called him "Holy Horatio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Holy Horatio | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

...something from a nightmare with an ugly gaping mouth, and had no fins, like other fish, for swimming north and south; this four-foot thing used two long arms to push it 'round the ocean, and (we presume) to wash its face whene'er it had the notion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fish Story | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

...Dome," designed for Burlington by General Motors engineers and stylists, has laminated, heat-&-ray-resistant glass top and sides, air conditioning, and 24 seats from which passengers can survey the landscape o'er...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pleasure Dome | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

Chance. In Detroit, the Free Press ran an advertisement: "Wanted: a brave girl to stand against a 48-inch board and al low Rajah Raboid, Sensational Mind Read er, to throw knives around her body with both eyes sealed. ... A $2,500 life in surance policy presented to the girl chosen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 21, 1945 | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

...didn't realize our own strength. . . . There is no telling what the Japanese might do if we were to provoke them editorially. They might even-oops, there we go again. Well, as we were saying, Mr. Price, the Far Eastern situation is fraught with interest, and, uh-er-pregnant with possibilities and, so far as the home-front situation is concerned, it's the very devil of a job to publish a newspaper in the face of censorship inanities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Devil of a Job | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

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