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Outcast of the Islands. Joseph Conrad's hothouse drama of a white man's disintegration in the tropics, strikingly directed by Carol (The Third Maw) Reed; with Trevor Howard, Ralph Richardson, Robert Morley (TIME, April...
...sprinkled in their wake tetrahedrons (sharp-pointed military devices for puncturing enemy tires). As the kidnap car careened around the last curve before reaching the sector line, the Communist Volkspolizei, alerted and waiting, lifted their barrier, and the taxi sped through without stopping, bearing Dr. Linse into the sinister maw of East Berlin...
While sociologists have ben pondering the impact of the Atom on the American Home, the Bendix on the Mother, and Video on the Book of the Month, the issue of Man versus Machine grimly confronted an Oklshoma draft board this week. Into the impartial manpower maw of Selective Service went a man who might well be a machine. The wheel, to quote one authority, had turned a full circle...
...bakery, which had been flubbing along in seventh place among its competitors for years, leaped to the van with gazelle-like ease simply by using Hopalong to promote its Barbara Ann Bread. Every product that adopted his name (at a fat fee to Hoppy) was sucked instantly into the maw of an insatiable demand...
Last week inside the Mulligan shack, for the benefit of visiting newsmen, Maw proudly started up the gasoline engine of a new washing machine. Its chuffy exhaust billowed dust through the room. Cautioned Paw: "Now mom, don't do that. These city fellows don't like getting dust on them." Then he added: "My wife's naturally mechanical...