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...DEVIL IN THE BUSH - Matthew Head - Simon & Schuster ($2). On Hooper Taliaferro's military mission into the Congo he stumbles across a marvelously carved ceremonial knife, two beautiful women and an evil old man. Un fortunately, this fine, assorted bag of jungle specimens includes one moth-eaten item: a thin, conventional plot of seduction and murder that has been used inumpteen whodunits with less glamorous settings. Verdict: fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent Mysteries, Nov. 19, 1945 | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

...Guthrie's statement that surgery has become painless "shocks one as a thundering lie ... but of course means only that the patient does not feel the touch of the surgeon's knife. . . ." (The pain comes after operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Shaw on Disease | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

Finally someone remembered that there was state business to transact. Calling the Council together for an open-air session, Horace Hildreth had a hunting knife at his hip. To call the meeting to order he rapped on a tree stump with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAINE: Down-East Government | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

...wicked man. His name was Nicholas Biddle. He was president of the Yewnited States Bank, which was a wily scheme to get hard money away from the COMMON MAN and give him scraps of paper in exchange. This Biddle was a bad actor. He did not eat with his knife and he foregathered with cronies who drank soup in silence so they could hear each other plot against the COMMON MAN. They were called Federalists. They held that some of the COMMON MEN could be hoodwinked all of the time, and that that was enough. They plotted to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Old Deal | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

...easy attitudes of complete cynicism on the one hand or Pollyanna optimism on the other are equally disastrous; it is a narrow and perilous knife edge that teacher and student alike must walk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Civil Courage' Necessary For Peace, Asserts Conant | 9/28/1945 | See Source »

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