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...mess that had grown up during Wagner's own eight hapless years in office. Wagner won by 160,000 votes over State Controller Arthur Levitt, the candidate of New York City's regular Democratic organization. And in the process of rolling up that plurality, Wagner dealt a mortal blow to the bosses who had twice previously helped him get elected mayor-and whose virtues he had, in past years, praised lavishly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Bob & the Bosses | 9/15/1961 | See Source »

...revealing photograph hints that the women might busy themselves with another phase of "temperance" work. Remember that the addition of excess poundage due to high caloric intake is usually the result of the commission of at least one of the mortal sins in the Christian list; namely, gluttony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 25, 1961 | 8/25/1961 | See Source »

This recent slaughter was yet another grisly incident in a mortal struggle against cruelty and civilization that has been going on in Brazil for more than 400 years. Like the North American Indian before him, the Brazilian Indian's enemy is the white man-and the white man's ways. Throughout the country's vast and still largely untamed jungle, the Indian stands dangerously close to extinction. When Portuguese Sea Captain Pedro Cabral discovered Brazil in 1,500, the lush tropical land teemed with 3,000,000 Indians of some 2,500 tribes. Today its tribal Indian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Vanishing Indian | 8/18/1961 | See Source »

Secrets of Women (in Swedish). Ingmar Bergman's first comedy; he sneers with mortal effect at the satisfied husbands of four dissatisfied wives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Television, Theater, Books: Aug. 11, 1961 | 8/11/1961 | See Source »

Secrets of Women (in Swedish). Ingmar Bergman's first comedy; he sneers with mortal effect at the satisfied husbands of four dissatisfied wives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Aug. 4, 1961 | 8/4/1961 | See Source »

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