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...live in a tiny, weatherbeaten shack back of the sand dunes, and we can peek at the ocean by stretching our necks a bit. Our neighbors are a motley crew: mostly men who seek only escape from their pasts, their responsibilities, or their sins. Whatever the reason, they've found some sort of peace here on the beach. Until we began ?o circulate among them with our books and magazines, there was an undeclared war constantly going on. One had built a 10 ft. fence to keep out prying passersby; one was a grouchy old codger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 18, 1948 | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

Later, when the stars came out over Palomar, the guests too got a peek-at Saturn, which looked like a bright silver dollar amidst its moons and rings. Apparently it took imagination to make much out of it: the New York World-Telegram headlined its story THE SHOW'S A FLOP, but New York Times Science Reporter William L. Laurence wrote that he had been "dazzled by a new radiance from the light of distant stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Knowledge & the Danger | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

...stage & screen, had gat trouble with his estranged wife Evalene. One dark night at home in suburban Los Angeles, he heard people coming in without asking, so he grabbed his rod quick and blazed away. It was just Evalene and a couple of detectives having a little peek. Nobody got hit, but Leo got arrested on a gun charge and faced trial this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 7, 1948 | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...peek in my gazebo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Elsa's Gazebo | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

Proper Name. In Atlanta, a charge of possessing salacious pictures taken in a nudist camp was placed against one F. C. Peek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 5, 1948 | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

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