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...cottage on the school grounds with his granddaughter Liz, a cat named Alice, a goose named Ted and a pig named Daisy. The Misses Edge and Baker want Rock off the place so they can have his cottage. A third vexation: Sebastian, one of the instructors, is making a fool of himself with the old scientist's somewhat addle-brained granddaughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Real Thing | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

...morally? There are sacred secrets belonging to the sick which 18 could not and ought not to be able to understand-and there are secrets, the very reverse of sacred, the secrets of vice, about Patients which their Nurse must know if she is not to be made a fool of; and which one shrinks from any young woman, gentle or simple, knowing. (Alas! the 'simple' know them far too soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Knowing Age | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...person has to be unnormal to get into this kind of business," concluded Cinemactress Lauren ("The Look") Bacall. "In the first place, you have to be slightly demented to make a fool of yourself in front of ... a whole crew of people who don't care a bit about what you are doing . . . Also you have to be a little nuts to get up at 6 o'clock every morning to go to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Notions In Motion | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

...asks questions may not get all the answers. But the man who refuses to ask questions only is deluding himself that he has all the answers. And the classic definition of a fool has always been, "a man who knows not that he knows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Montaigne Society Lauds Editorial | 12/15/1950 | See Source »

Although no one has pulled any "live" stunts so far, the campaign still has a day to go. Voting is tomorrow. The quiet doesn't fool one Union porter, however. "These freshmen are smarter than most," he warned. "They'll wait for the right time, then, watch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 15 Bid for '54 Smoker Election; Huge Posters Highlight Campaign | 12/14/1950 | See Source »

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