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...member of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, the elder Hearst received advance word of the surrender of Geronimo, the Apache chief whose periodic raids into the Babicora region had caused havoc among the ranchers. Before the news got out, he was able to buy several hundred thousand acres at 20? an acre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: End of An Empire | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

...dramatization of an episode from Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith. Others have included The Man Who Liked Dickens, starring Claude Rains, a prettied-up version of Evelyn Waugh's story of a lost explorer held captive by an illiterate half-breed, and Mrs. Union Station, a farce starring June Havoc. The show may have better luck this week with Charles Ruggles in an adaptation of Richard Harding Davis' The Consul. The commercials plug a different Chrysler Corp. car each week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Summer Shows | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

...working, and when they felt "his fresh, youthful, fruit-scented breath on their necks and faces, a novel, unexpected feeling of well-being would run through them, bringing with it a swift intoxication, a slight giddiness." Neither of the old maids had the least idea what was creating such havoc in their dried-up bosoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two Spinsters | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

...portrait of an idealist whose good will leads to havoc, Sophie is convincing enough. But the story lacks focus because Author Godden never seems able to decide whether she considers Sophie a brave new woman, a likable goose or just a goose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Havoc in Kashmir | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

...amendment (permitting price hikes to cover all cost increases from the beginning of the Korean war to July 26, 1951) shot price ceilings full of holes and aroused the wrath of the Truman Administration. Harry Truman said it was "like a bulldozer, crashing aimlessly through existing price formulas, leaving havoc in its wake." Little wonder, then, that Capitol Hill was startled this year when Bulldozer Capehart proposed that Congress give the President power to freeze wages, prices and rents for 90 days in case of a "grave national emergency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The New Model | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

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