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...necessarily have a system to work. Normally I write at any time, but for me expression comes easier when it is hot, or precisely during summertime when the blood boils in my veins, or during sleepless nights when I work until early morning. I always carry pencil and paper with me, since at certain moments on the saddle of a horse or leaning on a fence, I proceed with work under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Faulkner Speaking | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

Died in War. Two hours later, Lacerda propped his bandaged foot on a hospital stretcher, called for paper and pencil and dashed off a grim, accusing editorial for next day's front page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Ambush | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

...Pham Van Dong; another was France's Premier Pierre Mendès-France; the third was Albert Sarraut, an oldtime French empire builder who had been governor of Indo-China in lordlier days when there were no such irritants as the Viet Minh. Each had a red pencil in his hand. Beneath their hands the map was slashed with red lines, until Viet Nam began to look like a body crisscrossed with bloody welts. On the lawn outside, a dog howled at the moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 48 Hours to Midnight | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

...quickly: "I think I'll keep quiet about that." Then, seeing that such silence might be interpreted as a prophecy of doom, he hastily covered himself: "That doesn't mean I think it's bad." Striding on, Baruch had another afterthought. Pausing and turning to the pencil-poising newsmen, he nodded back toward the White House and said: "I will say this: the fellow in there knows what's going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 2, 1954 | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

...Manhattan last week, Columbia University's School of Dental and Oral Surgery announced a new, virtually painless dental drill, the Cavitron. Designed to replace the nerve-wracking metal burr, the pencil-shaped Cavitron is quieter and quicker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Open Wider | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

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