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...that conductors of two-price tours of Europe are expected to spend their time with the first-class guided tourists but find their girls with the second class; that suits of clothes made by tailors in tiny Italian villages are based on pictures in old American magazines, and sprout horsehair like old sofas; that the proprietresses of English teashops in Mediterranean seaports are not, as is generally believed, nymphomaniacs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Traveling Men | 9/20/1963 | See Source »

Round 5-the magic number. Embarrassed and enraged, Clay snapped Cooper's head back with a jab. Cooper reeled into the ropes. Instantly Clay was on him, smashing lefts and rights to Cooper's slashed left eyebrow-so viciously that horsehair stuffing spewed from a split in one of his gloves. Blood spattered everywhere-over Clay, over Cooper, over the referee, over horrified fans in the 6-guinea seats. "Murder! Murder!" they screamed, leaping onto their seats, pelting the ring with wadded-up newspapers. "Stop it! Stop it!" At last the ref stepped in. The round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prizefighting: Murder on the BBC | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

...acceptable students. Each new member, called a fox, had to prove himself in at least two duels, and later fight a dozen or so bouts as a blooded brother. Cheek scars were so prized that men with minor abrasions inflamed them with pepper or beer, or by placing a horsehair in the cut. and soberly got drunk on the theory that alcohol would make their scars more livid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Beer & Blades | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

Everybody fears Gut in Himmel. The old blacksmith says, "Dang your old liver pin." The props are out of the 1900 Sears, Roebuck catalogue - horsehair chairs, heaters with isinglass panes, Brussels car pets, claw-footed mahogany sideboards, a crokinole board. There's a rock-'n'-rye jug full of booze, rock candy, rusty nails, and rusty hinges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heap o' writin' | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

...mind." Heifetz can reduce an audience to tears, and he does so with a surprising economy of effects. He knows the kind of communication be tween stage and audience that Isaac Stern once described: "Standing on the stage alone with only a piece of wood with some strings and horsehair between you and the audience, you have to have the belief that 'I have something to give you.' " The matchless possessor of that belief has been enjoying a semi-vacation from his public for the past six years, spending most of his time in his Beverly Hills home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Best Violinists | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

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