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...effect Helen has on them is generally deadly. She drove Brett Chapman, millionaire ' rancher, to exile in South America. Dwight Swanson, oilman, piloted his plane into a crash and died. Kelcey Spencer, motion-picture tycoon, went off a cliff to his death. But Dick Waring, a madman, was sane only with Helen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Ageless Heroine | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

...madman beget madmen," Starbuck declares as the chase after Moby Dick is nearing its end, and as Captain Ahab is firing the crew of the Pequod to a frenzy of excitement. The trouble is that Starbuck does not really see a madman. He sees Gregory Peck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Moby Dick | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

...praised! How many Americans, who did not believe us D.Ps when we told them what a madman Stalin was, can now read what his friend Khrushchev is saying about his former master [June 11]. But what a scoundrel Lenin was during his short reign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 2, 1956 | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

Seeing Nelly Home. In Buenos Aires, the newspaper Critica dismissed Perón's threats with a question: "Hasn't Panama measured him for a strait jacket yet?" President Pedro Aramburu and his advisers seemed to sense that madman talk by Perón, who is still revered by millions of diehard Peronistas, provided a tailor-made chance to draw a contrast between the erratic ex-dictator and the sober new regime. The government made three moves that sharpened the impression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Blood Will Flow | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

Travels (really intended as a political satire) has been for two centuries a classic child's book. This man, born at the dawn of the Age of Reason, was to turn into a madman; the skeptical clerk who wrote lucid prose died raving. His was the skull beneath the powdered skin of the 18th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Conjured Spirit | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

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