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...surrealists just didn't understand. Says Dali: "Someone like me, who pretended to be a true madman, living and organized . . . was not allowed to exist." He was drummed out of the surrealist circle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Strictly Paranoiac | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

...than a scurvy lot of misfits," 6) tone down one character's references to the "morons' who run the Navy, 7) present one episode, in which Queeg all but turns the ship upside down looking for a quart of! pilfered strawberries, as more the work oi a madman than of an Annapolis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Came Scrutiny | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

...Chicago, Earl ("Madman") Muntz, onetime used-car magnate turned television tycoon, showed further evidence of his advertising talent by announcing that he would christen his baby daughter Tee Vee Muntz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Troubled Times | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

Back to Work. He firmly believes that the election of '32 was a greater catastrophe than the crash of '29. "We put into office as our Chief Executive a Pied Piper ... a gifted madman." If Jeff confuses the state of the nation with the state of his soul, it is because Author Jonas has failed to give him one. Swinging through the jungle of his mind on one rotting cliche after another, Jefferson Selleck finally decides that "courage to keep the whole show running" is the only value he knows much about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Latter-Day Babbitt | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...enemy in their hundreds advanced in wave upon wave," the official report said. "Private Speakman . . . learning that the section holding the left shoulder of the company's position had been seriously depleted by casualties . . . decided on his own initiative to drive the enemy off." Hurling grenades like a madman in a crockery shop, Speakman led his six men in charge after charge-ten in all-leaving "an ever mounting pile of enemy dead." A bullet caught him in the leg, and an officer ordered him to the rear. "What," roared Speakman, "and leave all my lovely grenades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEN AT WAR: Samson & the Grenades | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

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