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Word: mininger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crime does pay, especially when-as in this novel-it is 1) skillfully packaged as fiction, 2) taken by the Book-of-the-Month Club, 3) sold to the movies before publication, and 4) optioned by a Broadway producer. The payoff in this case goes to John D. Voelker, 54...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Case of Luscious Laura | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

Glistening, growing Denver (pop. 511,800) had a dynamic mayor in Will Faust Nicholson. An Ivy Leaguer (Dartmouth, '22), he made a good marriage (to the daughter of a Cripple Creek mining man), a good career (investment banking, real estate) and a good name (twice elected as a Republican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLORADO: Down with Big Nick | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

Swimming & Sand. Jamaica's six-story, 176-room Arawak (up to $58 a day for double with meals) is designed for aficionados of Miami Beach styling: rippling concrete, bright colors, polygonal swimming pool, straw-and-mahogany decor. Its planner was Morris Lapidus, architect of Florida's Fontainebleau, Eden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CARIBBEAN: Sun Season | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

Her name was not really Helena but Alice. She was Portuguese, living with her parents in the Brazilian diamond-mining town of Diamantina, and she began to keep her record of everyday happenings in 1893, when she was twelve. In 1942, as Senhora Augusto Mario Caldeira Brant of Rio de...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rich Little Poor Girl | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

This week the urban elections (or "consultations," as the Belgian authorities prefer to call them) will be extended to Elisabethville and Jadotville, the largest towns in the mining province of Katanga. Next in line: Stanleyville, Bukavu, Luluabourg, Matadi. But not even unlimited economic opportunity can still the demand for political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIAN CONGO;: Too Late, Too Little? | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

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