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...football field. It's "touch," but it's murder. If you don't want to play, don't come. If you do come, play, or you'll be fed in the kitchen and nobody will speak to you. Don't let the girls fool you. Even pregnant, they can make you look silly. Above all, don't suggest any plays, even if you played quarterback at school. The Kennedys have the signal-calling department sewed up, and all of them have A-pluses in leadership. Run madly on every play, and make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Man Out Front | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...Woods. To his contemporaries, Bruegel's art spoke more directly than to the present day. The point of such parables as that of the fool who walks past the bird's nest (see color) needed no explaining in his time. To satisfy an age when connoisseurs would spend hours before a painting "trying to find the owl in the woods." Bruegel packed his canvases with scenes of birds on the wing, half-hidden bird snares, distant village-green ballplayers, to give his viewers all the delights and surprises of a country stroll. To get his rustic costumes, characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: FOR EVERYMAN | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

VERLAINE: FOOL OF GOD (394 pp.)-Lawrence and Elisabefh Hanson-Random House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prince of Poets | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...game speculation about a possible upset in THE GAME did not fool Leighton Shields, Jr. 7G and five other winners of the CRIMSON'S Football Forecast Contest. Shields picked Yale to win 55-0, and came within 16 yards of predicting the Elis' exact total yardage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six Win Forecast Contest | 11/26/1957 | See Source »

...Wife Killer, Author Singer touches on a recurrent theme, that vengeance is God's business, not man's. The book's best tale is the title story about Gimpel. who has seven names in all: 'Imbecile, donkey, flax-head, dope, glump, ninny and fool. The last name stuck." Gimpel the Fool is the butt of all cruel, mindless jokesters. He will believe anything: that the dead have arisen, that the Czar is visiting Frampol, even that his wife is faithful. In the first place, he believes because, after all, anything is possible. In the second place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Songs in Exile | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

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