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...playing with his new $500,000 building blocks. They sat in a Bronx warehouse until after his death last year, then were sold (for about $60,000) to a group of New York and Cincinnati businessmen. Last week the new owners had glad news: the work of fitting the jig-stone puzzle is under way at North Miami Beach, Fla., and the monastery should be open for business - as a tourist attraction - about a year from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Jig-Stone Puzzle | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

...early-round British opponents crisply praised Maureen's cannonball abandon, but also felt compelled to chalk up part of their defeats to the heat. The heat made no difference to Killer Connolly. Cool and unperturbed, despite a painfully sore shoulder, she kept dancing her little baseline jig, running her rivals ragged with hard-hit placements, only occasionally coming to the net to volley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Little Mo Grows Up | 7/14/1952 | See Source »

...rash business deals, De Récy's lust for adventure had led him into a conspiracy with four accomplices to steal the bonds. Soon afterward, the thieves had had a falling out. One of them was picked up trying to cash in the bonds, and the jig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Eternal Parachutist | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

...guest-room bed, while neatly made, was warm between the sheets. The room's carpet was loose in one corner. The cops pulled it up, yanked away some loose planking. There, in a two-foot-deep nook, lay a burly man dressed only in his underwear. "The jig's up," said he calmly. "I knew you were bound to find me some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: The Buccaneer | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

...jig was up. "Yes, I have," Bohling confessed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Wurst Tragedy | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

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