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...girl shuffled slowly back to her friends, rubbing her knees. "Geez, what a fool I am. That ain't Julie...

Author: By Richard H. Ullman, | Title: Man of the People | 2/5/1954 | See Source »

...easy to get approval (Lord Ismay admits that he was dubious), but Winston Churchill was for it. When someone objected that the stunt might misfire and only call attention to the impending invasion of Sicily, Churchill replied, "I don't see that that matters. Anybody but a damn fool would know it is Sicily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dead Was the Hero | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

Intelligence Officer Montagu had complete respect for his German opposite numbers. To fool them, the bluff would have to be consummately prepared. "Major William Martin" got not only a foolproof identity card. He carried a picture of "Pam," the girl he was "engaged" to, her last touching love letters, stubs of theater tickets, a dunning letter from a bank, a letter from his "father" and the usual pocket impedimenta. His identity-card photograph was that of a man who looked like him. The letters he was os tensibly to have carried to North Africa in a plane that crashed were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dead Was the Hero | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

...souped-up standards of the contemporary historical novel, things are pretty tame. Jude saves a young-girl from making a fool of herself over an old man by doing her portrait as if she had drowned herself, like the old man's previous young wife; Jude flirts gingerly with sex when he meets a blowsy, redheaded tavern mis tress whose face just fits the Rubens-like nude canvas which he almost never dis plays. Closest he comes to trouble is when a sheriff mistakenly nabs him as Ruby Lambkin, a highwayman whose legendary misdeeds run a counterpoint through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ye Olde New England | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

...retiring board of the Brown "Daily Herald" last week moved the publishing date of its annual April Fool's edition to Jan. 15 and announced that President Henry Wriston will replace Brown University's fraternity system with a house plan similar to Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown Herald 'Hoax' Says Wriston Wants House Plan | 1/20/1954 | See Source »

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