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This will not do. Horowitz wears tails, Roger Clemens a Red Sox uniform, and thriller writers, according to tradition, are caparisoned in creased outerwear, lurking beside bridge abutments in the fog. Archer is radiant and fogproof. With a lesser talent, this miscalculation could have been fatal. After all, when one of Eric Ambler's down-at-the-heels protagonists makes a dodgy border crossing, the tension is palpable. Readers know that if the policeman in the greasy uniform were a shade more intelligent, he would realize that the hero's accent is bogus, his passport fake. An author who sees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Macguffin a Matter of Honor | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

...knows for certain yet what the mysterious objects are made of or exactly how they send out their energy. But Britain's radio astronomers, delighted with their fogproof window on the universe, are rapidly improving their instruments and trying to find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Twinkling Mysteries | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

...roads played up different tourist catches. The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad's Hiawatha had its glassed-in observation blister (see cut), the Pennsylvania Railroad's Jeffersonian, a newsreel theater and day nursery. Most had lounges, coffee shops, seats of rubber foam, barbershops. All had wide fogproof windows and cocktail bars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dreamliners | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

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