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Let's hope TIME'S forest has more and better trees than the one shading Charlie Wilson's head on your Feb. 19 cover. The fruit, so abundantly sprouting from this tree's limbs, has surely proved deficient in the kind of vitamins the world (including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 12, 1951 | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

Out of the murk of the London slums, as he tells it himself, arose a "bloody bookworm" named Fred Bason. At 15, Fred already had his own library, consisting of Treasure Island, Swiss Family Robinson, Liza of Lambeth, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Pears' Cyclopædia, the 1881...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: View from the Gutter | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

After that, they marched Roy's platoon to a nearby cemetery. "The first night they give us some water. They give us a couple of apples, too. There were four men to each apple. They brought us some pears and they give us some cigarettes and told us to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Massacre at Hill 303 | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

The Northwest's wheat and cattle lands had reached their peak of production; the Wenatchee and Yakima fruit orchards (apples, pears and peaches) had apparently surfeited their market. An early Northwest dream-vast trade with the Orient-had blinked out. In 1950 the slack was being taken up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST: Land of the Big Blue River | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

After a dozen more campus and concerthall audiences in the U.S. and Canada, Composer Britten and Tenor Pears will fly back to England. There Britten will plunge into an enthusiasm of his own: his seventh opera, his first with Novelist E. M. (A Passage to India) Forster as librettist.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rather Enthusiastic | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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