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Live Along. Paddy still yearned to get rich, but meantime, harried by friends who already want to borrow money from him, he scooped up his family, padlocked his hogans, leaving only the pigs, and headed for the hills. He left behind a crudely lettered cardboard sign: "Please don't take anything out of my place and live along [leave alone] my pig . . . From Paddy Martinez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW MEXICO: How to Find Uranium | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...Willingdon (Barry Jones) is indeed missing from his government laboratory- along with a potent U.K. 12 that could fit into his small satchel-touches off a major crisis in London and a major moviemaking feat by Britain's young (37) producing-directing twins, Roy and John (The Guinea Pig) Boulting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 25, 1950 | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

Fate's Guinea Pig. In his short life he produced 14 books-poems, novels, short stories-some masterly, some amateurish. He pursued an erratic career as reporter and war correspondent. He made punishing journeys to wars and insurrections, and he acquired a Bohemian notoriety that reads like a composite of Poe and De Quincey. A rebellious spirit, he took a peculiarly joyless pleasure in scandalizing the age. A groundless charge of drug addiction provoked a characteristic response: he concocted a piece on the opium habit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man in Search of a Hero | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...lived together as man & wife. Cora Taylor was devoted to him, but only a romp with his tiny nieces ever brought a smile to the face of Stephen Crane. His life had a kind of luckless ill grace as if he had been selected fate's prize guinea pig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man in Search of a Hero | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

Autos were not the only items that were going up. In the past two weeks, reported the Bureau of Labor Statistics, retail food prices had jumped 2%, with fruits, vegetables and eggs (at a 30-year high) leading the way. Pig iron was up again, and so was scrap steel; half a dozen steel companies had followed U.S. Steel's lead and raised their prices by about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRICES: We Cannot Accept ... | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

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