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...DAYS OF MCKINLEY (686 pp.)-Margaret Leech-Harper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A President Remembered | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...Association. In Dallas, when Charles Crouch was on trial for drunken driving, Prosecutor Paul W. Leech tried to trap him by asking, "Did you see me at the party?", and Crouch answered: "I saw one drunk. Was that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 27, 1959 | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

...Talleyrand. The marriage, performed with the aid of blood rites, was everything Captain Pierre had hoped for: the devoted Ilouhi carried her husband's Tommy gun through the leech-infested rain forests, saved his life many times over, taught him the language, and initiated him into the secrets of the primitive hill tribes; as the "Father with white hair," exploiting his wife's tribal connections, he won the allies France needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Polygamy for La Patrie | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...appearance of the names of Alonso and Heliczer may suggest that Audience is attempting not only to fill the i.e. vacuum, but to leech the Advocate, either healing it or killing it by draining away its bloodier contributors. There is not a serious duplication of function, however, for Audience appears to be bent upon being a full-fledged review, not merely a vehicle for undergraduate-prose-and-poetry. The difference in approach is illustrated most clearly in the Audience reviews and articles. Guy Davenport in "The Nymph in the Spark Plug" is concerned not merely with the "literary standards...

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: Audience | 5/28/1957 | See Source »

...Parasitical capitalism is one thing, productive capitalism another. A kulak, the village leech, is miles apart from a village capitalist of the farmer type. Our program should include support for those capitalists who multiply the national income, who derive profits from a constant increase in productivity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Two Kinds of Capitalism | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

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