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...hesitates before the glass door of the downtown building, then pushes through and climbs a narrow staircase to the second floor. There he pauses again before the well-advertised insignia on another door, squares his shoulders and steps into a brightly lit room filled with the murmur of Muzak melo dies. The man is 37, married, and a fa ther. He is a steady wage earner with a $6,092-a-year income. He is also in debt (to the tune of $513) and pressed by his creditors. He is a typical customer who has come to solve his problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Credit: Polonius Reversed | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

...Papa," she would murmur when she had finished, "I don't care what else you did so long you did this poem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: Papa's Poems | 7/30/1965 | See Source »

...MENTON (Aug. 1-25), on the French Riviera, mixes chamber music with the murmur of the sea. Performances are held in the centuries-old square of St. Michel's Church, which affords a panoramic view of the surrounding lemon groves and the port. Highlights include concerts by Pianists Byron Janis and Van Cliburn and a Schubert recital by Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Festivals: The Happy Plague | 6/11/1965 | See Source »

...examination period, Harvard Men are eager still for intellectual challenge. But their frazzled pates respond only in dulled cliches. Confronted with his grade sheet a student is apt to murmur ominously, "beware of Greeks bearing gift horses in the mouth." Or, preparing to leave Cambridge at last, he may sigh: "home is where you hang your hat it." For these bemused undergraduates we offer a little game to be played on the long car ride home: Pervert-a-Proverb. The sayings to be spoonerized may be drawn from Aesop or advertizing. No matter. Here are a few easy warmer- uppers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pervert-a-Proverb | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

...John Kirklin, a specialist in open surgery, will examine Yovicsin, will probably perform an open-heart to correct the murmur...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yovicsin to Have Heart Operation | 4/19/1965 | See Source »

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