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...from sex, religion and primitive passion. But his new novel (his sixth) is neither weird nor comic. It shows what happens when the laws of the jungle are replaced by the codes of the suburbs, and it portrays with grimness the lives of colored people whose worship of ancestral ju-jus has changed into keeping up with the Joneses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Guiana Belle | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

...mighty fortress. It stands behind the Iron Curtain of Christendom's enemy, and there are signs of struggle within and around it. Some of the choir boys who will sing its 16th century chorales in this troubled Eastertide wear the bright blue shirts of the Freie Deutsche Ju-gend, East Germany's Communist youth group. Last February, one of its clergy, Pastor Reinhold George, was arrested by Red security police a few yards from its doors, and he has not been heard from. Despite such threats by a hostile state, the Marienkirche is crowded with worshipers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bishop in the Front Line | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

Blonde Patricia McCormick, 23, who left Texas Western College two years ago determined to master the rugged art of bullfighting, survived her first "baptism of blood." The pert torera, who made her professional debut in Juárez last year and has faced some 20 bulls in small rings, was practicing passes with a small but sharp-horned cow on a ranch near Aguascalientes. Mexico. In the middle of a pass, Pat snapped her cape too quickly. The cow charged and gored her in the right thigh. In the hospital, where doctors treated a ten-inch gash, Pat said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 26, 1953 | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

...Calvin Smith, president of the Southern California Broadcasters' Association, sat down with Mayor Fletcher Bowron to have a try at settling the matter. After due consideration, the jury and mayor plumped for the soft "g." From now on, if their decision is respected, it will be "Loss An-ju-less," not "Loss An-gu-less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: With a Soft G | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

Poised and slim in her sober, untinseled bullfighter's costume, blonde Patricia McCormick flashed her scarlet cape at the second of her two bulls. The first had been tame and lackluster. The crowd at the Juárez bull ring knew that if the first U.S. professional torera's debut was to be a success, this fight had better be good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Torera from Texas | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

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