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...here from Asia and Africa, they were given various names, such as Jones and Smith. I haven't adopted a name. It's a part of my ancestral background and heritage: I have re-established my original name. I have gone back to my own vine and fig tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Syncopated Silence | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

Ants in the Plants. That the Post gets out at all is a minor miracle. Beneath a giant Moreton Bay fig tree in Port Moresby (pop. 7,000), the Post's termite-honeycombed headquarters has been flooded eight times during monsoons. Twice the composing room has been invaded by serpents-a ten-foot python, a rare and venomous taipan-which were pelted to death by ingots of type metal. One night a horde of winged ants, attracted by the lights, swarmed in to lay a living veneer on the Linotype machines, jam the works with their bodies; a mechanic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Roll-Your-Own Newspaper | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

...Wrote an anonymous Canadian bard: Away with honors, knighthoods, swords, In proof of high endeavor. We'll wear where Adam wore the fig The Maple Leaf forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: The Redeemed Empire | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...material and the spiritual worlds. The heroine is a dim-witted old peasant woman (Annie Rosar), who works as a cook in a wealthy Austrian family, saves all her pennies to educate her nephew (Kurt Meisel) for the priesthood. Actually the cook does not care a fig for the nephew. All she wants is a priest who will pray for her soul and make sure she gets to heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 11, 1959 | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...Fig Tree, by Aubrey Menen. Nature gets the last laugh on science in this aphrodisiacal spoof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: CINEMA | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

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