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...furious round of reading, writing, lecturing, politicking and literary partygoing. Holmes continually warned his half-century junior against "working your machine too hard." Pithier than Laski and more profound, he matched him dictum for dictum, except that the Holmes dicta more often suggested the open mind than the clenched fist. Some of Holmes's views...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The 20-Year Dialogue | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

...issue, according to the gun-toters: either the so-called subversive moviemakers got out of town pronto, or they would be shipped out "in black boxes." Here & there, fist fights flared; Clinton Jencks, international representative of the I.U.M.M.S.W., was twice rocked by socks in the jaw; 50 Silver City men tussled with the camera crew until state police broke it up. U.S. immigration officers arrested the feminine star of the picture, Mexican Cinemactress Rosaura Revueltas, for illegally entering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Salt of the Earth | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

...body. But in Social Sciences II, an enrollment of over 650 students chains him to a microphone, and reduces him to wild movement with his hands. Gauging the relative importance of his remarks is easy. An idea emphasized by a gentle wave means little, but anything accompanied by a fist brought up from the floor with a twisting motion is liable to be on the examination...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: The Dynamic Pinstripe | 3/13/1953 | See Source »

East, and thence to Tokyo. There T.W.A. would link up with Northwest Airlines for service to the U.S. The CAB long ago approved a similar route (via Shanghai), but T.W.A., losing money hand over fist, did not want to fly it then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: T.W.A.'s Comeback | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

...become the standard work on Fielding. As a biographer, Master Dudden is as dull and honest as an old pewter pot; but he brims nevertheless with the sloshing ale of Fielding's vitality, and time & again the rollicking old genius seems to seize the pot in his pudgy fist, slam the table, and roar out his irrepressible toast to life, and again life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Manly Relish | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

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