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...spell success. This is the American way, and it is right. But in a system of free enterprise there should always be room at the bottom for the little fellow who is neither mentally nor morally fit to compete with the big boys. And on behalf of the tin-horn punk, friends of small business look with uneasiness upon recent developments in the world of crime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Wages of Sin | 12/3/1953 | See Source »

Omnibus (Sun. 5 p.m.. CBS). Jack Benny in The Horn Blows at Midnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Nov. 30, 1953 | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

...Vikings, a drinking society, meets at a Sunset Strip restaurant, numbers among its members Victor Borge, Lauritz Melchior, Michael Wilding. The Vikings wear horned helmets and bearskin robes, and on special occasions blow an ancient Bavarian mountain horn. Their motto: "Work is the ruin of the drinking classes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Back to Pompeii | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

...India, using the elephant as a mass producer of serum fractions. To transform the elephant into a mobile factory of anti-antibodies for diagnostic tests seems a simple trick to the ingenious Dr. Heidelberger-for recreation, he once rearranged a Brahms trio so that he could play the horn part on his clarinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Weighing a Complement | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

...careful driver who rates a fellow motorist as "nuts" for honking his horn as soon as the light changes to green is probably right, though medically inexact. Alan Canty, psychologist for Detroit's traffic court, spelled it out in more technical terms at a National Safety Council meeting in Chicago last week: "The fellow who blasts his horn to bully his way through traffic, the fellow who wants to race you in a traffic-light getaway, and the smart-aleck who defies traffic regulations are selfish . . . and egocentric individuals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Neurotics at the Wheel | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

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