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...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is the secret that Actor Bobby Morse shares with the season's most appreciative audiences, as he clambers deceitfully and nimbly up the corporate slag heap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mar. 2, 1962 | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

...Jackstraws. "Europe was a heap of swords piled as delicately as jackstraws," writes Author Tuchman; "one could not be pulled out without moving the others." Germany's battle plan was drawn by Count Alfred von Schlieffen, chief of the German general staff from 1891 to 1906, a monocled Prussian with a mind that slashed through argument like a dueling sword. Schlieffen promised victory in six weeks by a massive, right-wing attack that would pivot across Belgium and fall on the flank of the French armies before Paris. Knowing of the scheme, France devised Plan 17, calling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Trap of War | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a secret that Actor Robert Morse exuberantly shares with the audience in his great, grinning rush to the top of the corporate heap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jan. 26, 1962 | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

...baby blue staterooms. New compact radar sets, depth-sounders and other electronic gear cram the cockpits. Pushbutton winches eliminate the need to "weigh" anchor. Hot-water heating, cold-water cooling, seawater evaporators and adapters for turning iceboxes into electric refrigerators lure the boat owner. Apparently it takes a heap of gadgets to make a boat a home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leisure: Boats Ahoy | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

Trying desperately to be Shavian, Romulus in the end rewards the playgoer with a wispy heap of intellectual shavings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Decline & Fall | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

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