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Sir: Your comments about Robert Penn Warren's book in tribute to Theodore Dreiser [Aug. 30] are too fatheaded not to be rejected. Dreiser is not forgotten. He is read by many people in many parts of the world, and for good reason: he wrote earnestly and without cleverness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 20, 1971 | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

Callaghan sat down to a silent House of Commons, which had expected harsh measures, but instead found them merely bewildering. Commented the London Times: "There was even an air of disappointment, as though the Commons were flagellants who had just had their whips confiscated by a benevolent abbot." Next day...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Out of the Black Case | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

Nikita's Sins. The catalogue, which was evidently compiled by Ideologist Mikhail Suslov, accused Khrushchev of 29 sins, immoral, illegal, or fatheaded. Basically it corroborated earlier reports that Nikita's underlings could no longer stomach his loutish, highhanded ways or condone his persistent bungling of agricultural, ideological and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: How Nikita & Nina Came Back To No. 3 Granovsky Street | 11/6/1964 | See Source »

Fatheaded Whale. Last week a deep-diving laboratory was launched by the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp. in Groton, Conn. Christened the Aluminaut and looking for all the world like a fatheaded sperm whale, the craft is the world's first aluminum submarine. Its 51 -ft. hull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oceanology: Aluminaut & Aqucmauts | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

For a man who makes his point by inviting a smile, Cover Subject Mauldin has a sober view of his trade. He thinks that "the American public highly overrates its sense of humor. We're great belly laughers and prat fallers, but we never really did have a real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jul. 21, 1961 | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

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