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...Bingo" Riggs and "Handsome" Kusak, peripatetic photographers, stop in an Iowa village on their way to Hollywood, are properly hornswoggled over a flock of turkeys, get dangerously involved in several murders and a hidden hoard of stolen gold pieces. A local sheriff does the major sleuthing. No deductive masterpiece but well stocked with action, odd characters and merriment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mysteries in November | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...were issued at the brief concert of November 9, 1927, but if you've heard a McKenzie-Condon record you know it was jazz, and the boys didn't give a damn who found out. It was direct and to the point--strictly six men ganging up on a flock of instruments in a fight to the finish...

Author: By S/sgt GEORGE Avakian, | Title: JAZZ, ETC. | 11/12/1943 | See Source »

Director Johnson brought to the U.S. a flock of German refugee professors called The Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science (who give masters' and doctors' degrees quoted at par on the academic exchange). By the time the North African landing sealed France's leaky borders, the school also had a brilliant French troupe known as the Ecole glibre des Hautes Etudes (Free School of Advanced Studies). Director Johnson's native faculty includes such stars as N.Y.U.'s ebullient, scrappy Philosopher Sidney Hook; Columbia's handsome, encyclopedic Art Historian Meyer Schapiro; Queens College...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: School for Adults | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

...Bishops of Denmark are militant Christians. Early this year Bishop J. J. A. Ammundsen of Lolland-Falster warned his Lutheran flock to be ready for martyrdom. Last week to the U.S. came news of increasing militancy. In Copenhagen Bishop Hans Fuglsang-Damgaard thundered: "We shall pray and kindle the spirit. There was never any use for cowardly clergymen, least of all today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ready for Martyrdom | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

...Asphodel three old maids picnic near a shattered mansion, gabble of a deceased romance, and are scared away by a device (a naked man, a flock of goats) which belongs rather to ballet or to case histories than to literature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sense and Sensibility | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

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