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Hideaway. In Rio de Janeiro, Cameraman Jorge Alves de Lima told cops that someone had robbed him of a lion skin worth about $300, added that it had great sentimental value "because the lion, when alive and still in possession of its skin, ate a very good friend of mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 9, 1959 | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

But if Journey is short on the supports of religion and the structure of philosophy, it is an often fascinating excursion into the literary riches of a sensuous and cultivated mind. Sitwell begins his journey at the point where he dies. Traveling with other newly dead, part way by plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Long Way to Nowhere | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

The deal came too late to refurbish the shabby hotel for this season, but Navarrete brought in Topflight Instructor Peter Estin and his ski-school teachers from Vermont's Sugarbush, got Panagra airline (50% Grace-owned) to set a ski-excursion round-trip fare of $420 (regular rate: $678...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ANDES: Up to Ski | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

In the days of Buddha, this annual retreat had a practical purpose: farmers had complained that the master's disciples, wandering the countryside begging for alms, were trampling the newly sprouting rice plants, and the Lord Buddha ordered his priests to keep out of the way until the crop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 90-Day Priests | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

Ben Weber: Serenade for Strings (The Galimir String Quartet with David Walter, contrabassist; Epic, mono and stereo). A sinewy, appealing excursion into atonality by one of the foremost U.S. members of the club. For three movements, Composer Weber has his strings weaving melancholy, attenuated fretworks of sound, giving way in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Classical Records | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

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