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Ever since Phineas T. Barnum observed that "a sucker is born every minute" and proceeded to prove it with a fabulous assortment of hokum, men have tried to describe the mystery and glamour surrounding circus life. But most attempts at painting the lives and loves of an India Rubber Man...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 10/15/1947 | See Source »

¶ At Tarrytown, N.Y., the Hudson River mansion of Washington Irving, restored by John D. Rockefeller Jr. (at a cost of almost $1,000,000) to the approximate condition in which the author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow left it when he died in 1859, was opened as a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Oct. 13, 1947 | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

Running as if they had just been let out of the antelope pens near the course, seven Engineers negotiated the hilly, 4 1/4 mile grind before John Cogan, the first Harvard man, hit the finish line. A Holy Cross runner was sandwiched in between the sixth and seventh Tech finishers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Techmen Find Lowest Denominator In Downing Crimson Harriers, 15-61 | 10/11/1947 | See Source »

Like everyone else, Harry Truman had his worries; as President he had more than the normal share. But nothing seemed to dampen his resilient spirits. Last week he was having the time of his life passing out two boxes of shiny new pens, the gift of an anonymous admirer. On...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Finest Jail | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

This "absolute leader" turned out to be Chicago's Reynolds Pen Co., first and foremost exploiter ($20,857,000 sold in two years) of ball-point pens. But why were Chairman "Milton Reynolds and President Franklin Lamb willing to sell this purported gold mine for a song? Reynolds, who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Underwater Bargain | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

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