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Her first trip to South America was so successful that plump, jolly Carolyn Schnurer persuaded other stores to help pay the costs of nine subsequent trips to far-off places. She and her husband, who runs the business side of the operation, never know what may come from her trips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: From Natives to Natives | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

At 66, Monty is still the terse, proud, positive figure - "the intensely compacted hank of steel wire" -of a decade back. He still neither drinks nor smokes (though he now lets fellow officers smoke in his presence, serves whisky at his formal staff parties). When he waxes profane, the air...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Busy Blacksmith | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

Well, Virginia, every year about this time we've been telling you that Santa Claus exists all right, that he'll be down your chimney this year with his bundle of presents, round and jolly as ever. So this year we sat down and said to ourselves, have we been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas Present | 12/18/1953 | See Source »

After losing a few more amatory battles, the squire is ready to offer his hand and fortune in marriage. Shamela has a moment of doubt. She still nurses a soft spot in her heart for a certain "jolly Parson" to whom she had borne an illegitimate child. But she consoles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pamela, Shamela | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

Stopping Dimwit. Another primitive African, undoubtedly human, was recently found by Keith Jolly of the University of Cape Town and described by Professor M. R. Drennan in Britain's Nature magazine. In a "blowout" (wind-eroded area) near Saldanha, 80 miles north of Cape Town, Jolly found the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

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