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...unhappily, the baron stops looking at himself just long enough to notice his luscious young cousin (Stefania Sandrelli). His mustache bristles. From that moment he is a man with a mono mania: off with the old wife (Daniella Rocca), on with the new. Furtively he riffles through a lawbook, evilly he smiles at what he finds, cunningly he recruits a lover for his wife. It isn't easy. For one thing, she has a mustache almost as fluffy as his own. For another, she is pugnaciously, insultingly faithful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Baron Takes a Wife | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

...Lindsay Almond, sitting alone and writing in his lawbook-lined study for almost two days, had made his decision, and he stood by it. Almond quietly lined up Byrd-organization moderates and others, quietly defied the Byrd leadership, warned the extremists that he would have to veto any slapdash measures designed to thwart the courts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Virginia Gives Way | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

Alfred Mossman London, 1936 GOPresidential nominee, finally got around to the practice of law-37 years after being admitted to the bar (he never hung out a shingle, made his fortune as an independent oil operator). Combining long business experience with his oldtime lawbook learning, he appeared before Kansas' Corporation Commission, examined a witness in an oil case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Fresh Start | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

...Shriner's hat, silk scarves, gloves, ties, socks, a sweater, a towel bearing the Union Jack, a framed list of U.S. Presidents, a copy of George Washington's will, a painting of the Great Seal of Ohio, a pair of spectacles, a textbook on navigation, a lawbook, The Book of Mormon, a set of Indian arrowheads, a turkey's wishbone (the V-symbol), an autographed picture of Jack Dempsey and a carton of skin lotion, a couple of soap dishes, a portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt done on a typewriter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bundles for a Briton | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

...writer who might have complained most of frontier neglect complained not at all. That was yellow-haired Joaquin Miller (christened Cincinnatus Hiner Miller), a "delicate, effeminate, useless" romantic who had a daughter by an Indian woman, became a judge ("with one lawbook and two six-shooters," said oldtimers), married a romantic Oregon girl-poet named Minnie Myrtle whom he divorced because "Lord Byron separated from his wife, and some of my friends think I am a second Lord Byron." From San Francisco editors Poet Miller got rejection slips until his famous junket to England. Armed with a laurel wreath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Golden Era | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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