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Scollay Square's bars are not particularly lush--sawdust serves for a rug in a good many--but one can get as completely, unconsciously drunk in them as in the Copley's Merry-go-Round. That is enough of an attraction for their patrons.

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: Saturday Night in Scollay Square: Burlies, Girlies, Bars, and Bums | 9/12/1951 | See Source »

Unhappily, the cheery peace of this literary sampler is broken by a scarlet thread that runs wild through it all. William Cowper was a madman. He spent every moment of his last 25 years under the delusion that God hated him personally. Worse yet, Cowper's God was irrevocably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Odd Scrambling Fellow | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

Strangers on a Train (Warner), Alfred Hitchcock's latest thriller, winds up with a scene in which a merry-go-round goes wild, spins like a pin wheel, and crashes in a gaudy blaze of explosions that no earthly carrousel could touch off. The movie itself is the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 16, 1951 | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

This hunger for poetic expression was part of a larger hunger for all of human experience. Keats was frankly sensuous: "Talking of Pleasure," he writes to a friend, "this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine-good god how fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In the Mouth of Fame | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

>In Eugene, Ore., the Big Y store installed four "Rest-a-Checks" at the checkout stations so that customers could take it easy while waiting to pay bills. The Rest-a-Check is a circular turntable divided into three sections, each with a foam-rubber seat big enough to hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Super Gimmicks | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

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