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There are about 10 million penguins (if any penguin census can be believed), mainly Magellans, gentoos and rock hoppers. There are also sooty shearwaters, kelp geese, oyster catchers, ground-tyrants, king shags and occasionally a black-browed albatross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Place Fit for Buccaneers | 4/19/1982 | See Source »

...kitsch of the season is Dime-Store Days (Penguin; 128 pages; $12.95) by Lester Glassner and Brownie Harris. Lovingly assembled by a five-and-ten freak and movie junkie, this compendium of glittering gimcracks from the '30s and '40s provides a deep wallow in nostalgia. Among the glories of Woolworthlessness are cutouts of Carmen Miranda with the plaster-banana wall plaques she inspired, a Charlie McCarthy paper doll "with movable mouth," and a lurid World War II poster of a starlet straddling a bomb inscribed TOKYO EXPRESS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Treasures of Art and Nature | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

...Penguin Books has sold 1.2 million copies of You Can Do the Cube, by Patrick Bossert, a 13-year-old London schoolboy. It has also been translated into half a dozen languages, including Dutch, German, Portuguese and Japanese. Among other tips, Bossert advises that a little Vaseline strategically applied to the inside of a cube will make its parts rotate faster. He can unscramble a lubed cube in 45 seconds. His royalties so far have totaled more than $100,000, but his father plans to salt most of that money away for his son's education and other future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rubikmania | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

While the MVP award was divided like the season into three roughly equal slabs-Yeager, Guerrero (five RBIS in Game 6) and Ron Cey-the "Penguin's" part will be remembered longest. Cey made noise in all of the Dodger victories, hitting three-run homers or turning bunts into double plays, but the most resounding sound was his beaning by Rich Gossage in Game 5. "Sounded like a hollow log," Goose shuddered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Beating the New York Jinx | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...advisories on how to make a profit from the coming apocalypse, there is a growing shelf concerned solely with mastering that infuriating, six-sided, six-colored, 27-part boggler with 42.3 quintillion possible combinations known as Rubik's Cube. The latest entry: You Can Do the Cube (Penguin; $1.95) by Patrick Bossert, 13, a London schoolboy who discovered the cube only this spring during a family ski vacation in Switzerland. Within five days he had mastered the monster, and later began selling his schoolmates a four-page, mimeographed tip sheet for 45?. An alert editor at Penguin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 31, 1981 | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

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